Quote

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

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
Microsoft
Primaries
Primary
Activity

More quotes by 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
Image
Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
Bill Gates
Image
Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.
Bill Gates
Image
How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
Bill Gates
Image
Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.
Bill Gates
Image
Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
Bill Gates
Image
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
Bill Gates
Image
On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.
Bill Gates
Image
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
Bill Gates
Image
Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.
Bill Gates
Image
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
Image
I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.
Bill Gates
Image
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Bill Gates
Image
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid now it's aid-neutral.
Bill Gates
Image
Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
Bill Gates
Image
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
Bill Gates
Image
Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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
The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
Bill Gates
Image
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.
Bill Gates