Bill Gates > Quotes

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
― Bill Gates

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Bill Gates

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
― Bill Gates

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
― Bill Gates

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
― Bill Gates

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
― Bill Gates

“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.”
― Bill Gates

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
― Bill Gates

“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...”
― Bill Gates

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
― Bill Gates, The Road Ahead

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
― Bill Gates

“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.”
― Bill Gates

“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”
― Bill Gates

“The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”
― Bill Gates

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
― Bill Gates

“Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.”
― Bill Gates

“Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
― Bill Gates

“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act”
― Bill Gates

“So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.”
― Bill Gates

“Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.”
― Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
― Bill Gates

“The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer the most from it.”
― Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

“If you can't make it good,at least make it look good.”
― Bill Gates, What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.”
― Bill Gates

“To sum up: We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before, much faster than we have ever done anything similar.”
― Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

“The climate is like a bathtub that’s slowly filling up with water. Even if we slow the flow of water to a trickle, the tub will eventually fill up and water will come spilling out onto the floor. That’s the disaster we have to prevent. Setting a goal to only reduce our emissions—but not eliminate them—won’t do it.”
― Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

“Making things (cement, steel, plastic) 31% Plugging in (electricity) 27% Growing things (plants, animals) 19% Getting around (planes, trucks, cargo ships) 16% Keeping warm and cool (heating, cooling, refrigeration) 7%”
― Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

“The point is that when we focus on all three things at once—technology, policies, and markets—we can encourage innovation, spark new companies, and get new products into the market fast.”
― Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

“There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It’s like saying that as of 1932, cars didn’t have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them.”
― Bill Gates