1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

There are still some companies out there based on the old thinking,

Although (the Y2K problem) is a terrible distraction and there will be some disruption, there has been a little bit of a windfall for some participants in the IT industry, ... below the middle of the panic (levels) some people have suggested.

If government is pulling back on this stuff, then the AIDS epidemic absolutely will not be stopped and the whole view of the rich world and how they've behaved to the world at large I think will be sort of irredeemable,

We lusted after some of those things (Palm) did well, and we wanted to combine it with the things we did well. It's wonderful to see those things come together.

Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

There are some architecture changes that need to be made,

Although it is almost eliminated in rich countries, it's still one of the biggest killers worldwide. This is a very tough disease.

We lusted after some of the things (Palm) did well and wanted to combine them with some of the things that we did well.