Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future...”

— Bill Gates

452. “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.”

— Bill Gates

453. “On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.”

— Bill Gates

454. “If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child’s death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.”

— Bill Gates

455. “Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.”

— Bill Gates

456. “The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that’s expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren’t used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.”

— Bill Gates

457. “My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.”

— Bill Gates

458. “I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, ‘Yes, my country is doing well,’ but you think about the world at large.”

— Bill Gates

459. “I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.”

— Bill Gates

460. “The poor can’t wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.”

— Bill Gates

461. “I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.”

— Bill Gates

462. “Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.”

— Bill Gates

463. “The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.”

— Bill Gates

464. “Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.”

— Bill Gates

465. “Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.”

— Bill Gates

466. “Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.”

— Bill Gates

467. “Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.”

— Bill Gates

468. “I mean, if we said right now, there’s somebody in the next room who’s dying, let’s all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.”

— Bill Gates

469. “Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.”

— Bill Gates

470. “People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.”

— Bill Gates

471. “Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.”

— Bill Gates

472. “Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.”

— Bill Gates

473. “AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.”

— Bill Gates

474. “Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.”

— Bill Gates

475. “Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.”

— Bill Gates

476. “A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.”

— Bill Gates

477. “The kids are a big part of my schedule.”

— Bill Gates

478. “Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.”

— Bill Gates

479. “Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‘The Most Powerful Idea in the World.’”

— Bill Gates

480. “I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.”

— Bill Gates

481. “We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.”

— Bill Gates

482. “It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.”

— Bill Gates

483. “I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.”

— Bill Gates

484. “The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.”

— Bill Gates

485. “Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They’re the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.”

— Bill Gates

486. “If success corrupts, I’m probably pretty corrupted by now.”

— Bill Gates

487. “My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.”

— Bill Gates

488. “If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you’ll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.”

— Bill Gates

489. “We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.”

— Bill Gates

490. “It’s an experiment, and it’s probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.”

— Bill Gates

491. “If you’re too focused on your current business, it’s hard to change and concentrate on innovating.”

— Bill Gates

492. “I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.”

— Bill Gates

493. “India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.”

— Bill Gates

494. “Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.”

— Bill Gates

495. “No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.”

— Bill Gates

496. “The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.”

— Bill Gates

497. “Newspaper readership is still growing in India.”

— Bill Gates

498. “You don’t have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.”

— Bill Gates

499. “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

500. “We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.”

— Bill Gates