1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

Tasks that we thought in the past as impossible will now be rather simple, ... We are going to lead the way in XML advances.

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

It's a major milestone. The settlement puts new responsibilities on Microsoft and we accept them. I am personally committed to full compliance. We are committed to being a responsible industry leader.

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

Microsoft, as we have been throughout the case, is very open to the idea of settlement. We don't think extensive litigation and the resources that involves are really good for anyone. We will see if that's a possibility,