Bill Gates Quotes

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of the question. That's just an aptitude impossibility, I couldn't have done it.

I had very little going for me as a kid except for the fact that I had demanding parents and was very good at filling out bubbles on standardized tests. I went to the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University because I did well on the SAT. I went to Exeter because I did well on the SAT.

We will graduate our players, and we will do it all with integrity and with class.

I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.

I did all right in school, especially in math.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks.

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.

This is not class warfare. It’s math.

I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.