Quote

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

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
Jobs
Basic
Away
Workers
Able
Level
Without
Higher
Work
Levels
Make
Philosophy
Would
Information
Clicks
Interesting
Empowering

More quotes by Bill Gates

Image
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
Bill Gates
Image
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
Image
I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it
Bill Gates
Image
The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
Bill Gates
Image
People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.
Bill Gates
Image
Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.
Bill Gates
Image
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
Bill Gates
Image
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
Bill Gates
Image
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
Bill Gates
Image
There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.
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
You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.
Bill Gates
Image
I get more spam than anyone I know.
Bill Gates
Image
I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
Bill Gates
Image
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Bill Gates
Image
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
Bill Gates
Image
[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
Bill Gates
Image
The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.
Bill Gates
Image
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
Bill Gates
Image
(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
Bill Gates