Bill Gates

It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.

Bill Gates

It’s fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that’s got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It’s very exciting.

Bill Gates

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

Bill Gates

It’s not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved ’em. You hated ’em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

Bill Gates

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Bill Gates

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Bill Gates

It’s really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

Bill Gates

It’s the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Bill Gates

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Bill Gates

It’s the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

Bill Gates