Quote

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

Bill Gates

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Gates
Age: 68
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
Games
Time
People
Computers
Waste
Computer

More quotes by Bill Gates

Image
Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.
Bill Gates
Image
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
Bill Gates
Image
AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
Bill Gates
Image
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
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
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
Bill Gates
Image
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates
Image
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
Bill Gates
Image
To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.
Bill Gates
Image
in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you
Bill Gates
Image
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
Bill Gates
Image
When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.
Bill Gates
Image
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
Bill Gates
Image
There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
Bill Gates
Image
Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
Bill Gates
Image
... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
Bill Gates
Image
My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.
Bill Gates
Image
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
Bill Gates
Image
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
Image
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
Bill Gates