1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

It shouldn't be the case that it's not equal ... It's a good field for everybody. Absolutely, a ton needs to be done.

And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little-known industry and it landed us at the center of an amazing universe.

There is competition, ... Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,

It is certainly a dream come true in that we set a computer on every desk in every home and have the level of sales and profitability and employees we have today,