Bill Gates Quotes

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It’s very expensive.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It’s more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

There’s 20 companies that I have investments in – some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’