1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

It's a big challenge, but we have to make sure that security is not the thing that holds us back.

The greatest surprise in poverty reduction ... is China.

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.

Very soon, having four gigabytes of memory will be quite common, ... Improving something by a power of a million is quite dramatic...We simply don't find that kind of improvement anywhere else in the world.

Part of the goal here is to take all these transactions, these business understandings, and really get those into digital form,

The impact on our society of the computing revolution is simply breathtaking -- it has changed the way we work, play, learn and communicate.

It's a concept that in the past might have been thought of as an executive information system that was just for a few top people, ... It'd take millions of dollars to set up, the system would be hard-wired, and it would provide only a subset of data. Today, in literally minutes you can add data and status reports and your personal digital dashboard will update that.

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.