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Bill Gates

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Bill Gates (born 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft Corporation. Under his leadership, Microsoft became the world's largest personal computer software company. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he has become one of the most generous philanthropists in history, focusing on global health and education.

“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”

— Bill Gates

Technology

All Quotes by Bill Gates

“Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.”

— Bill Gates

Time

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.”

— Bill Gates

Teacher

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

— Bill Gates

Learning

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”

— Bill Gates

Change

“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”

— Bill Gates

Life

“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

Business

“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”

— Bill Gates

Science

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

— Bill Gates

Teacher

“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

Change

“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.”

— Bill Gates

Success

“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.”

— Bill Gates

Time

“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”

— Bill Gates

Technology

“I spend a lot of time reading.”

— Bill Gates

Time

“People everywhere love Windows.”

— Bill Gates

Love

“It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.”

— Bill Gates

Cool

“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

Design

“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

Death

“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.”

— Bill Gates

Government

“Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.”

— Bill Gates

Dad

“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”

— Bill Gates

Society