Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.”

— Bill Gates

302. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Bill Gates

308. “The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.”

— Bill Gates

309. “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

310. “This antitrust thing will blow over.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

313. “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

314. “The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.”

— Bill Gates

315. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

319. “Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.”

— Bill Gates

320. “Inspiration starts somewhere.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

327. “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

328. “Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free.”

— Bill Gates

329. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

332. “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

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

— Bill Gates

334. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

340. “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

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

— Bill Gates

342. “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

343. “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

344. “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

345. “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

346. “We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it’s going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act.”

— Bill Gates

347. “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

348. “Eventually you won’t think of ‘the Internet business.’ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.”

— Bill Gates

349. “If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”

— Bill Gates

350. “We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.”

— Bill Gates