Bill Gates Nic Quotations

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

If those are preserved, it'd be nice if a settlement could be reached,

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.

Today's realignment optimizes Microsoft's ability to take advantage of the business and technical opportunities we see as customers rapidly adopt the Internet and intranets into their daily lives,

Technical computing is crucial to the many discoveries that impact our quality of life; from making safer, more efficient cars and airplanes to addressing global health issues and environmental changes.

Electronic mail has been a huge phenomena for us. It gives us a little bit of a closer feel. Even if somebody's office is in another building, you're always sending them messages. And even if they're off in another country it makes that easy. So, we

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

How ironic that in the United States, where freedom and innovation are core values, these regulators are trying to punish an American company that has worked hard and successfully to deliver on these values,

How ironic that in the United States -- where freedom and innovation are core values -- these regulators are trying to punish an American company that has worked hard and successfully to deliver on these values,

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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

The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

Windows 95 was a nice milestone.

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

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.