Quotes from Bill Gates

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

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

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

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

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.

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.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

If something's 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?

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.