Bill Gates Quotes

"This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways."

"Steve will absolutely be the business leader, ... I decided I wanted to spend more time with our product groups and drive the breakthroughs. Think of Steve as the business leader and customer champion."

"With Windows, people have a vast choice of tools, applications and devices to start anything they like."

"Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade. XNA underscores Microsoft's commitment to the game industry and our desire to work with partners to take the industry to the next level."

"It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy."

"The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,"

"You could say this is a bet-the-company kind of thing,"

"This is what competition is all about, ... Sure, we want new versions of Windows to be popular."

"They will provide us competition in some areas,"

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

"The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik"

"We are entering a digital decade where smart, connected devices and advanced home-entertainment solutions will enable people to utilize technology in new ways and maximize its full potential."

"There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition."

"The breadth of experience that people have as they browse the Web is going to get larger and larger."

"There is no area where privacy is more important than health records."

"The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past."

"The goals and the deal are quite different, so obviously they would have known they are quite different,"

"I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them."

"We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, ''surrounding'' a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading."

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact."