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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By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

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The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

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Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-tak...

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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

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In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

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I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

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The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

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I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

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If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

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It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

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There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

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The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

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This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we hav...

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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