1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

This antitrust thing will blow over.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.