Bill Gates Quotes

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.

Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress has to benefit everybody or even most people. It's possible that productivity can go up and the economic pie gets bigger, but the majority of people don't share in that gain.

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

The thing which has made Labor great & powerful is labor-saving machinery--& nothing else in the world could have done it. It has been labor's savior, benefactor; but Labor doesn't know it, & would ignorantly crucify it. But that is human & natural.

The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous dataset to draw on, so whatever shaped curve we're on, we're only at the beginning of it.

As long as our quality and company continue to get better, by nature, we will get bigger.

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing became, the fewer people they employed.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

Nokia, with its deep experience in connecting people and its three strong businesses, is well-positioned to tap new opportunities during this time of technological change. I look forward to working with the entire Nokia team as we embark on this exciting journey.

The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.