Bill Gates Quotes

There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

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.

It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.

Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.

I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.