Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
Actor
Bridge Player
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Financier
Inventor
Investor
Philanthropist
Programmer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
William Gates
William Henry Gates III
William Henry
III Gates
William Henry Bill Gates III
Two
Warning
Lulled
Change
Investing
Estimating
Years
Ten
Lulls
Always
Motivational
Overestimate
Business
Inaction
Inspirational
Millionaire
Action
Underestimate
Next
Occur
More quotes by Bill Gates
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates
In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
Bill Gates
I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
Bill Gates
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
Bill Gates
One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We 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.
Bill Gates
We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.
Bill Gates
People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.
Bill Gates
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
Bill Gates
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
Bill Gates
With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.
Bill Gates
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
Bill Gates
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
Bill Gates
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
Bill Gates
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
Bill Gates
I think of myself as a global citizen.
Bill Gates
I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.
Bill Gates
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill Gates
If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.
Bill Gates
There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
Bill Gates
I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
Bill Gates
