Quote

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

Bill Gates

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Vision
Care
Able
Things
Device
People
Convenience
Devices
Appropriate
Ultimate

More quotes by Bill Gates

Image
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
Bill Gates
Image
At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.
Bill Gates
Image
I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.
Bill Gates
Image
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
Bill Gates
Image
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
Bill Gates
Image
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
Bill Gates
Image
If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
Bill Gates
Image
When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
Bill Gates
Image
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
Bill Gates
Image
It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
Bill Gates
Image
An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
Bill Gates
Image
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
Bill Gates
Image
If something's 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?
Bill Gates
Image
The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.
Bill Gates
Image
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
Bill Gates
Image
Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.
Bill Gates
Image
People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
Bill Gates
Image
K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Bill Gates
Image
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
Bill Gates
Image
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates