Quotes by Bill Gates

About Bill Gates:

William Henry is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1975, Gates co-founded Microsoft, that became the world's largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books.
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In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores ...

Bill Gates

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens...

Bill Gates

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Bill Gates

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.

Bill Gates

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Bill Gates

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Bill Gates

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Bill Gates

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Bill Gates

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Bill Gates

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Bill Gates

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those peopl...

Bill Gates

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Bill Gates

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

Bill Gates

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Bill Gates

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Bill Gates

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

Bill Gates

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Bill Gates

The future of advertising is the Internet.

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We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Gates
  • DescriptionAmerican business magnate and philanthropist
  • AliasesWilliam Gates; William Henry Gates III
  • BornOctober 28, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Programmer; Computer Scientist; Philanthropist; Inventor; Financier; Bridge Player; Investor
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; National Medal Of Technology And Innovation; Padma Bhushan