1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equityWe are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.