Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes

Bill Gates

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
― Bill Gates

“Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day - and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.”
― Bill Gates

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
― Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
― Bill Gates

“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”
― Bill Gates

“If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?”
― Bill Gates

“We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.”
― Bill Gates

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
― Bill Gates

“At Microsoft, there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.”
― Bill Gates

“When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.”
― Bill Gates

“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?”
― Bill Gates

“Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.”
― Bill Gates

“Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.”
― Bill Gates

“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

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
― Bill Gates

“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”
― Bill Gates

“Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.”
― Bill Gates

“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”
― Bill Gates

“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.”
― Bill Gates