Bill Gates Quotes

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.

We're changing the world with technology.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.

I believe we find ourselves in a period of radical transformation. Regardless of whether it is digitalization, the environment or terrorism. We can be successful in this new world. We have the necessary willingness. The French are inventive and innovative. But we need to finally pick ourselves up.

I believe engineers will save the world.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.

I think the Internet has changed the world.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.