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Bill Gates
American
Businessman
About the author
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Time
#Trouble
#Business
#Running
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Want
#People
#Will
#Day
#World
#Question
#Evolution
#Computer
#Design
#Gods
#Software
#Mercy
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Success
#Failure
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Life
Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Life
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Day
#Help
#Quick
#Funny
#Debt
Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Greed
#Innovation
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Now
#People
#Will
#American
#Poor
#Countries
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Time
#People
#Will
#Fear
#Ignorance
#Change
#Electricity
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Security
#People
#Will
#Problems
#Being
#Computers
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Talk
#Technology
#Information
#Talking
#Business
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#People
#Success
#Thinking
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Death
#Killing
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Internet
#Tomorrow
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Kids
#Technology
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Technology
#First
#Business
#Inefficiency
#Efficiency
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Property
People everywhere love Windows.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Love
#People
#Windows
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Chance
#Dreams
#Fact
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Time
#Religion
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Computers
#Creativity
#Communication
#Tools
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#People
#Will
#Problems
#Act
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Thought
#Money
#Trying
#Meeting
#Giving
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Experience
#Ugly
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#End
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Right
#Ideas
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Life
#People
#Coffee
#Television
#Jobs
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Years
#Idea
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Leaders
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Boss
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Technology
#Computer
#Driving
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#People
#Years
#First
#Washington
#Visit
#Software
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#People
#Communication
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Miracles
#Today
#Energy
#Electricity
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Time
#Years
#World
#Change
#Business
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Years
#Change
#Inaction
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Dream
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Money
#Behavior
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#People
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Want
#Tax
#Choices
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Software
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#Learning
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Bill Gates,
American
Businessman
#People
#Capitalism