1,672 Quotes by 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.

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.

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...

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

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Well, I went for a ride but I didn't find my car

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.

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.

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