Quotes from Bill Gates

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

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

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

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

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

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

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

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

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has