Bill Gates People Quotations [Page 2]

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

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.

The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

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 people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Whenever we come out with a new version, and particularly with this version, you'll see an increase in revenue because you get that installed base coming in and you get people who have been reluctant thinking about whether they should buy the product saying, 'That is the hot new thing,'

Melinda and I are thrilled to have someone with Dr. Yamada's breadth of experience leading the foundation's work on global health. He's organized the best talent around big challenges, knows what it takes to bring promising science from the lab to people in need, and understands how to engage new partners. We look forward to working with him to help close the gap in health between rich and poor countries.

The one top problem we've got in hardware advances is getting everybody connected at high speeds...Most people even five years from now will probably still be connected through the phone line,

It ended up being a fairly minor issue because people really worked together,

There's been a lot of misinformation put out by the competitors, ... We will always stand for the PC industry -- high volume, low prices, rapid innovation. People who stand against the PC industry, I don't think they'll be successful.

The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,

I'd say that my job, throughout all this, has been, I think, the most fun job I can imagine having. And partly the people I've gotten to work with outside the company. Certainly there are great people inside the company. And certainly, for at least a

The whole idea of the H1-B thing is don't let too many smart people come into the country. Basically, it doesn't make sense. You can't imagine how tough it is to plan as a company where we say, 'Let's have this engineering group and staff it.' You get a few and then you go through these periods where nobody can come in.

Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something. The timing was right for the people who got to do it. And that is a lucky thing for t

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

We believe that by taking business processes and making them very visual, very explicit, people can edit processes and see status of processes. We can do something that's quite different than ever before.

Having great software that lets your people see digital information, lets them collaborate, lets you build a great Web site, that's going to be very, very important for all companies going forward, ... And Windows 2000 is the key platform where that starts.

The amount of time we spend here and having our people here full-time is definitely on the increase,

The breadth of experience that people have as they browse the Web is going to get larger and larger.

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

As people see how we've broken down the boundaries between Office and the Internet; as they see how we let them share information ... the things we've done with e-mail, the things we've done with the recovery capabilities, they'll see that this is a very big launch of Office,

Reliability is top of the list (of Windows 2000 features) ... People don't want to reboot their systems ever,

We think we'll revolutionize how people do things in the workplace by bringing streaming media and Microsoft Office together in a combined vision,

I used to be begging people to pay attention to security. Now they get it. Security is part of everyone's job.

I'm not, you know, particularly good at this. Maybe I'll never be good at it. But to walk around to each patient and ask, you know, what is your problem? And be respectful of, you know, their desire for privacy. But I think it is very important. If people got out like that, you know these problems would get addressed.

There isn't the buzz and excitement about computer science that there should be. We're on the threshold of extraordinary advances in computing that will affect not only the sciences but also how we work and our culture. We need to get the brightest people working on those opportunities.

Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.

With Windows, people have a vast choice of tools, applications and devices to start anything they like.

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

A lot of people have a very narrow definition of a PC,

But as long as there is year-by-year progress, it holds a great opportunity for us in terms of scale, which helps us do more, and it's a great place where we have people working for us.

I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness -- to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn't solve on their own, ... All Things Considered.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I thought digital technology would eventually reverse urbanization, and so far that hasn't happened. But people always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.

We are entering a digital decade where smart, connected devices and advanced home-entertainment solutions will enable people to utilize technology in new ways and maximize its full potential.

I expect over the next five years between us and others a heck of a job will get done. You'll be able to sit at your desk and do whatever it is you want to do with information or presenting data or interchanging data incredibly effectively. In other words, we will have changed the way people work.

Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and their benefits. This is a broad and important mission, and I believe we all have a part to play in it.

We need in this industry small software companies with two or five people that are very, very specialized, ... We also need many giants.

Although (the Y2K problem) is a terrible distraction and there will be some disruption, there has been a little bit of a windfall for some participants in the IT industry, ... below the middle of the panic (levels) some people have suggested.

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.

People hate, hate, hate to subscribe to things on the Internet.

I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But

We're not even giving you a time-frame. In fact, a lot of people who got the prototype code said, 'Hey this looks pretty good. Gee, you must be close to getting this done.' Because of all the integration and the extreme high level of quality, there's still quite a bit to be done.

Windows and the consumer electronics industry are changing dramatically, people live in a world with more digital content and information than ever before.

I've been struck by the role that technology plays and especially that the Internet played during this crisis. On September 11th hundreds of millions of people relied on the Internet to get news and to communicate with loved ones.

Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.

The opportunity to engage people who are very far away from each other and yet might have interesting information is better here than has ever been possible.

The opportunity to do better software has never been stronger. We talk about this digital decade and people living a digital work style or a digital lifestyle when they go home -and that is becoming more and more commonly accepted. As you move things away from paperwork and onto the digital approach, everything is software value-added.

There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.

In most companies, you don't get too much mail where people are saying, 'Hey, we lost this account.' But that's what you really need to know about, because it might change what you're doing. You need to know about competitive activity. You need to kn

The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.

There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.

A big focus for us has been reliability. People don't want their video interrupted,

It's been shown that most people download viruses unwittingly-they don't know they're doing it until it's too late. That's what I mean here. We're talking about protecting the consumer.

I see if people are around, see what they put up on the walls. I want a little sense of what the feeling is, how lively, how much people personalize things. They put industry articles up on the walls, ones that are particularly rude to us or particul

we'll have a better search engine and make it more attractive for people to use.

The people on (the Xbox) team can all kill me within about 60 seconds on Halo, so I try and avoid them.

These are jobs that pay great, ... These are fun jobs, and so you'd think right now we'd be having more people applying in them than ever. .But in fact somehow we haven't got the word out. We haven't made it clear the steps to get the right skills to get these jobs.

If as many people paid for software as they do here, we'd have well more than 10 times the business we do today.

Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

We need to make it easier for people to visualize information that comes from different directions,

If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.