Quotes

“I spend a lot of time reading.” Bill Gates

“Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.” Bill Gates

“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.” Bill Gates

“We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.” Bill Gates

“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.” Bill Gates

“I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.” Bill Gates

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.” Bill Gates

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.” Bill Gates

“There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.” Bill Gates

“We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.” Bill Gates

“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.” Bill Gates

“People everywhere love Windows.” Bill Gates

“Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.” Bill Gates

“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” Bill Gates

“Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.” Bill Gates

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” Bill Gates

“I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.” Bill Gates

“I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.” Bill Gates

“It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.” Bill Gates

“Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.” Bill Gates

“The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.” Bill Gates

“The kids are a big part of my schedule.” Bill Gates

“The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.” Bill Gates

“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.” Bill Gates

“Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.” Bill Gates

“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.” Bill Gates

“I'm a geek.” Bill Gates

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

“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.” Bill Gates

“If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.” Bill Gates