Bill Gates Hang Quotations

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.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

We're changing the world with technology.

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

There are some architecture changes that need to be made,

This is a big change for everybody -- not just users, but businesses and developers, every part of the ecosystem, ... This affects everyone who uses software. It's a broad sea change.

This is a big change for everybody. It is employing every part of the (software) ecosystem.

This is a big change for everybody, ... It is employing every part of the (software) ecosystem.

This is the first time in our 25-year history we've actually changed our vision statement,

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.

The impact on our society of the computing revolution is simply breathtaking -- it has changed the way we work, play, learn and communicate.

Microsoft is running its entire business, Exchange Server and SAP, and everything on Windows 2000,

All operating systems, including IBM's, Sun's, Apple's and many others are including Internet browsing capabilities, ... The beauty of the Internet is its openness. It cannot be controlled or dominated or cut off because it is simply a constantly changing series of linkages.

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

The Internet will be a revolutionary tool during the next decade and will redefine business, ... Software is the key ingredient to changing the way we know the Internet today.

These mergers really don't change all that much over night. I didn't expect Oracle to buy Siebel, but they did,

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.

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

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.

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

This antitrust thing will blow over, ... We haven't changed our business practices at all.

The time is really now to change these things. That's true from the point of view of the relationship between the rich world and the poor world, it's true from a security point of view, an economic point of view. ... We're hopeful that the U.S. and other governments will see this as a turning point,

It's a revolution in how we think about software, ... This is a big change for...every part of the ecosystem.