Bill Gates Future Quotations

We're hoping the remaining states will join in this agreement so that everyone can focus on the future and avoid the unnecessary costs and delays of further litigation, ... While this decree will place significant restrictions on Microsoft's business, we believe this is a fair and reasonable settlement that will be good for consumers, good for the high-tech industry and good for the economy.

There is competition, ... Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

Because we now have a research group, and we are out there working with lots of universities and are able to continue to hire great people, I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.

If you are going from one of your own PCs to one of your other PCs, we will in the future make that possible. But we don't allow the distribution that is beyond the rights that you have.

committed to continue to hire great people, listen to customers, invest in future research and development, and create the next great generation of software.

There will be 'two societies' in the future: high-paid knowledge workers and low-paid service workers.

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,

I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.

you'd have to look out three years into the future.

The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today's DVD format. We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else.