Bill Gates

We’re no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you’ll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.

Bill Gates

We’re only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

Bill Gates

We’re responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software, that’s something we brought to computing. And so it’s a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don’t get in the way of that dream.

Bill Gates

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Bill Gates

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Bill Gates

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Bill Gates

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn’t allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in – if they could, they would do so.

Bill Gates

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates