You need to know about customer feedback that says things should be better.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Feedback, Customers
I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can someday replicate that on a machine. Earthly life is carbon based and computers are.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Intelligence, Computers
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Authority
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Communication
My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Focus
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Health
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Religion
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
—Bill Gates
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Dreams
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
Topics: Computers
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Work
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Mistakes
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
Topics: Capitalism
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
—Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
—Bill Gates
Life is not fair; get used to it.
—Bill Gates
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Neighbors, Customers
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Chance
The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Excitement
If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Ability
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.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Work, Power, Vision, Giving
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.
—Bill Gates
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
Topics: Golf
What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Enthusiasm
Smart is an elusive concept. There’s a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Creativity
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Technology
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Television
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Business
There’s a basic philosophy here that by empowering…workers you’ll make their jobs far more interesting, and they’ll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
—Bill Gates
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I’m your man.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Food
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