Bill Gates quotes - page 19

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)
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail. View quote
Bill Gates
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. View quote
Bill Gates
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. View quote
Bill Gates
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. View quote
Bill Gates
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. View quote
Bill Gates
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. View quote
Bill Gates
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. View quote
Bill Gates
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. View quote
Bill Gates
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. View quote
Bill Gates
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin. (Bill Gates)
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. View quote
Bill Gates
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively. View quote
Bill Gates
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.' View quote
Bill Gates
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. View quote
Bill Gates
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. View quote
Bill Gates
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. View quote
Bill Gates
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. View quote
Bill Gates
Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. View quote
Bill Gates
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. View quote
Bill Gates
Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. (Bill Gates)
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. View quote
Bill Gates
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. View quote
Bill Gates
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. View quote
Bill Gates
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear. View quote
Bill Gates