Quotes by Bill Gates

About Bill Gates:

William Henry is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1975, Gates co-founded Microsoft, that became the world's largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books.
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

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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...

Bill Gates

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Bill Gates

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Bill Gates

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities ...

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In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Bill Gates

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assig...

Bill Gates

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

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If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

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The best teacher is very interactive.

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The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

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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.

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The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

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I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Gates
  • DescriptionAmerican business magnate and philanthropist
  • AliasesWilliam Gates; William Henry Gates III
  • BornOctober 28, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Programmer; Computer Scientist; Philanthropist; Inventor; Financier; Bridge Player; Investor
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; National Medal Of Technology And Innovation; Padma Bhushan