1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

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

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company’s ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

The most important ‘speed’ issue is often not technical but cultural. It’s convincing everyone that the company’s survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.

It’s an experiment, and it’s probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

Don’t wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

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