1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.