Quote

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

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
Thing
Retailer
Retailers
Easiest
Internet

More quotes by Bill Gates

Image
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
Bill Gates
Image
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill Gates
Image
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
Bill Gates
Image
The barrier to change is not too little caring it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
Bill Gates
Image
One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'
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
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
Bill Gates
Image
If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.
Bill Gates
Image
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
Image
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
Bill Gates
Image
There are several hundred people who stayed in the Ebola-affected countries and continued to do the work, put themselves at great risk because medical workers are the most likely to be infected because they're helping out when the person's health is deteriorating, including quite a bit of bleeding as they're getting very, very sick.
Bill Gates
Image
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.
Bill Gates
Image
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.
Bill Gates
Image
Africa is on the rise.
Bill Gates
Image
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
Bill Gates
Image
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
Bill Gates
Image
If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.
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
Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.
Bill Gates
Image
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Bill Gates