Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “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

354. “At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

356. “Started from the chair hop now we here.”

— Bill Gates

357. “The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.”

— Bill Gates

358. “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

359. “Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.”

— Bill Gates

360. “Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.”

— Bill Gates

361. “Philanthropy should be voluntary.”

— Bill Gates

362. “Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.”

— Bill Gates

363. “The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.”

— Bill Gates

364. “The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.”

— Bill Gates

365. “You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.”

— Bill Gates

366. “Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.”

— Bill Gates

367. “Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.”

— Bill Gates

368. “Measles will always show you if someone isn’t doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.”

— Bill Gates

369. “In programming when you’re making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.”

— Bill Gates

370. “We weren’t trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we’d sort of put one foot in front of the other.”

— Bill Gates

371. “Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.”

— Bill Gates

372. “Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.”

— Bill Gates

373. “By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.”

— Bill Gates

374. “If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.”

— Bill Gates

375. “The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.”

— Bill Gates

376. “The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.”

— Bill Gates

377. “The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.”

— Bill Gates

378. “In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.”

— Bill Gates

379. “I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’”

— Bill Gates

380. “Test scores aren’t perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.”

— Bill Gates

381. “The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.”

— Bill Gates

382. “When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, “My God!” No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.”

— Bill Gates

383. “The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.”

— Bill Gates

384. “It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.”

— Bill Gates

385. “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.”

— Bill Gates

386. “Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, “Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?” People don’t forget that.”

— Bill Gates

387. “Does the universe exist only for me? It’s possible. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.”

— Bill Gates

388. “In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.”

— Bill Gates

389. “Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.”

— Bill Gates

390. “Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.”

— Bill Gates

391. “Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.”

— Bill Gates

392. “The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.”

— Bill Gates

393. “WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.”

— Bill Gates

394. “When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.”

— Bill Gates

395. “If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!”

— Bill Gates

396. “If you’re asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don’t. And certain things, like my freckles, they’re just there. I don’t do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.”

— Bill Gates

397. “In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I’m your man.”

— Bill Gates

398. “We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.”

— Bill Gates

399. “My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.”

— Bill Gates

400. “Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.”

— Bill Gates