Bill Gates

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

Bill Gates

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Bill Gates

If success corrupts, I’m probably pretty corrupted by now.

Bill Gates

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

Bill Gates

If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn’t hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.

Bill Gates

If u are born poor then it’s not your mistake but if u die poor then it is your mistake.

Bill Gates

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn’t matter how much we master the secrets of science. We’re not really solving problems, we’re just working on puzzles.

Bill Gates

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

Bill Gates

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child’s death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

Bill Gates

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

Bill Gates