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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.
Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.