Bill Gates Pro Quotations

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

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

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us.

We are trying to put a 'services plus software' mentality into many of the product groups inside Microsoft.

Steve will absolutely be the business leader, ... I decided I wanted to spend more time with our product groups and drive the breakthroughs. Think of Steve as the business leader and customer champion.

Ray has never really been an outsider. Even when he was developing (Lotus) Notes, he was helping us improve Windows. Moreover, Ray is super well-respected inside Microsoft, just as he is throughout the industry.

He's truly been a leader in protecting the safety of children online and convincing government, law enforcement and the private sector that we all need to work together to tackle this important problem.

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.

In the living room itself, Xbox 360 is our centerpiece and a product that redefines what goes on there.

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.

They're doing God's work in a pretty incredible way, ... They have provided the lion's share of the personnel.

I never expected Microsoft to be so successful, ... We're not ashamed that we've taken the low-price, high-volume approach here, which is different than the competitors, who are trying to get a leg-up from the government.

Millions of children have died from malaria because they were not protected by an insecticide-treated bed net or did not receive effective treatment, ... If we expand malaria control programs and invest what's needed in (research and development), we can stop this tragedy.

The ability to innovate Windows, the ability to maintain the integrity of Windows as a fully designed product -- those are important to us, ... As long as we can keep those intact, it would be great to settle the thing.

Governments around the world tell us that to interoperate effectively they need a more structured approach to building information technology (IT) systems.

We're encouraged by China's efforts to strengthen intellectual property protection, which will provide the foundation for continued expansion of the IT industry in China. We look forward to working with the Chinese government and partner companies in China to create new opportunities for growth.

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.

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.

We are embarking on the richest series of product releases in our company's 30-year history. Beyond the opportunities this presents for our customers and partners, these new live offerings represent an incredibly powerful way of enabling customers to more quickly access and benefit from the innovations being developed by our product teams.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

XML facilitates a new world of experience and services, ... XML transforms productivity tools and databases and brings even more profound changes than HTML (the Internet's hypertext markup language) brought.

Advances in our understanding of the human genome promise to revolutionize medicine and open the door to therapies that are tailored to individuals.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.

We view this as a major milestone. Our original vision of a computer on every desk and every home, we've made amazing progress on that. This organization will allow us to do that faster.

That information essentially will be magically stored on the Internet itself, ... With any device, once you prove who you are with a pass card or a smart card, the things you care about, (such as) e-mail, bookmarks . . . will appear on that device, but in the way that matters to you.

That license is concrete proof of government commitment to strengthen the awareness and the activities around intellectual property.

Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.

They will provide us competition in some areas,

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,

Today we are using passwords, and they won't cut it. We need to move to multifunction authentication. A lot of that will be using a smart-card approach that needs to be built down into the system.

With our foundation, with others ... we're getting the brightest scientists to come and work on these problems,

We're at a very key transition point, ... There are going to be lots of devices, but a new model that makes them work together. It is going to require an architecture approach that is different than what we have today.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

Older systems were secure because they were isolated. You can't layer on top of a system elements to make it secure; you get too much of a mismatch between the components. This design approach is absolutely critical--thinking these things through from the beginning and not bringing security in at the end is very important. This has been a big shift for Microsoft.

Digital music is one of the fastest growing segments of the online entertainment industry, and by promoting Rhapsody's subscription music services from within MSN, we will provide a better experience for our users.

could be read to ban Microsoft from competing in any product category. I know such a ban would be unreasonable, and yet that is what the language of Section 8 appears to provide for.

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.

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,'

Very soon, having four gigabytes of memory will be quite common. Improving something by a power of a million is quite dramatic...We simply don't find that kind of improvement anywhere else in the world.

Very soon, having four gigabytes of memory will be quite common, ... Improving something by a power of a million is quite dramatic...We simply don't find that kind of improvement anywhere else in the world.

The incredible momentum around all these new products and services shows that the digital lifestyle has truly gone mainstream this year. Now it's time to bring together the devices, software and services in people's lives and take all these experiences to the next level.

These proposals will have a chilling effect on innovation in the high technology industry, ... Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. Looking forward, this kind of regulation would make it impossible for Microsoft to develop the next generation of great software.

We need highly educated leaders, skilled in research and analysis, who will undertake a creative approach to defining and solving problems so that we can address the injustices and inequities around our world. On graduation from Cambridge, Gates Scholars are in an ideal position to bring new vision and apply their learning to the benefit of society at large.

We need an approach here that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the very largest,

This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive, ... We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us ? still, the opportunity to lead is very clear.

I decided that I want to spend more time with our product groups and drive the breakthroughs and it's fantastic for me that Steve can step up to the business management of the company.

Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

In late 2006 when these products come out, they will be a wave.

Getting the video sources into the PC has been a limiting factor. We're making progress making the video content easily accessible on the PC.

Microsoft's key goal is to be able to have the freedom to innovate like we always have, where we decide what goes into the product, where we can support the Internet in the product, ... We're simply sticking up for that. We're hard at work on the new products while the competitors are trying to use regulation to slow us down.

If improving a product based on customer input is willful maintenance of trying to stay in business and not have Netscape turn their browser into the most popular operating system, then I think that is what we are supposed to do.

It's a concept that in the past might have been thought of as an executive information system that was just for a few top people, ... It'd take millions of dollars to set up, the system would be hard-wired, and it would provide only a subset of data. Today, in literally minutes you can add data and status reports and your personal digital dashboard will update that.

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.

When these products come out in late 2006...it will be the largest marketing event we've ever had,

Computation has become a tool for all the sciences, ... We need an approach that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the largest.

The legal process can be hard on anyone who goes through it, and the last four years have been challenging for all of us here at Microsoft, and for me personally, ... But despite the many twists and turns in the case, I've always had faith in our company and our employees and in the magic of the software we're creating.

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

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.

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

As I understand it, providing Microsoft's technology to its competitors so they can build 'functional equivalents' of our products now, and match all our future innovations for 10 years, is in fact one of the central objectives,