Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.”

— Bill Gates

302. “Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can’t put numbers to it. And yet it’s the thing that defines the way we live, the things we’d like to have for everyone whether it’s health or education.”

— Bill Gates

303. “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

304. “The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg’s press did the Middle Ages.”

— Bill Gates

305. “The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.”

— Bill Gates

306. “Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.”

— Bill Gates

307. “We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.”

— Bill Gates

308. “Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.”

— Bill Gates

309. “Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.”

— Bill Gates

310. “OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‘Trey’ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.”

— Bill Gates

311. “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”

— Bill Gates

312. “Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.”

— Bill Gates

313. “When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.”

— Bill Gates

314. “Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!”

— Bill Gates

315. “This antitrust thing will blow over.”

— Bill Gates

316. “I find golf very relaxing. It’s a way to get away from work and get outside. It’s a lot of fun, and once you get going it’s almost kind of addictive.”

— Bill Gates

317. “If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.”

— Bill Gates

318. “People who say they don’t see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.”

— Bill Gates

319. “If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.”

— Bill Gates

320. “Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.”

— Bill Gates

321. “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.”

— Bill Gates

322. “The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.”

— Bill Gates

323. “The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.”

— Bill Gates

324. “Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.”

— Bill Gates

325. “There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.”

— Bill Gates

326. “Inspiration starts somewhere.”

— Bill Gates

327. “In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.”

— Bill Gates

328. “The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.”

— Bill Gates

329. “If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.”

— Bill Gates

330. “In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.”

— Bill Gates

331. “The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.”

— Bill Gates

332. “I did not even finish my studies.”

— Bill Gates

333. “Let’s face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.”

— Bill Gates

334. “Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free.”

— Bill Gates

335. “Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.”

— Bill Gates

336. “There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.”

— Bill Gates

337. “We’ll have infinite bandwidth in a decade’s time.”

— Bill Gates

338. “Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.”

— Bill Gates

339. “My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.”

— Bill Gates

340. “Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.”

— Bill Gates

341. “I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.”

— Bill Gates

342. “My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.”

— Bill Gates

343. “I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.”

— Bill Gates

344. “You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.”

— Bill Gates

345. “The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.”

— Bill Gates

346. “It’s pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We’re finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.”

— Bill Gates

347. “Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.”

— Bill Gates

348. “In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.”

— Bill Gates

349. “Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.”

— Bill Gates

350. “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