Bill Gates Quotes

This is a software-powered world.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

I love software and I love technology.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Something else has happened with computers.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.