Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies. "
Bill Gates
Nice
Great Things
Myself
Related Quotes:
" Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin. "
Bill Gates
Believe
Think
Good
" You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. "
Bill Gates
Go
Down
Magic
" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "
Bill Gates
Business
Problems
Government
" We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should. "
Bill Gates
Waste
Own
Really
" For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. "
Bill Gates
Enough
Good
Internet
" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "
Bill Gates
Watch
Now
Than
" My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. "
Bill Gates
Pool
Decisions
Group
" Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. "
Bill Gates
Pretty
Like
Way
" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
Bill Gates
Pace
Moving
Innovation
" You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. "
Bill Gates
Friday
Thanksgiving
Monday
" Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. "
Bill Gates
Innovation
Democracy
Think
" If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. "
Bill Gates
Fair
Jail
Degree
" 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before. "
Bill Gates
Information
Organizing
Choices
" The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. "
Bill Gates
Food
Opportunity
Today
" The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. "
Bill Gates
Tablet
Off
Reading
" Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. "
Bill Gates
Really
Energy
Civilization
" The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand. "
Bill Gates
Progress
Impact
Fight
" The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. "
Bill Gates
AIDS
Vaccine
Percent
" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
Bill Gates
Truth
Believe
Expectations
" I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. "
Bill Gates
Lucky
Belief
Moral
" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. "
Bill Gates
Learning
Unhappy
Greatest
" Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. "
Bill Gates
Well
Like
Product
" We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. "
Bill Gates
Digital
Transition
Strategy
" There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth. "
Bill Gates
Wealth
Change
Great
" If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. "
Bill Gates
You
Trouble
Real
" I think there will be PCs at every price point. "
Bill Gates
Point
Will
I Think
" The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. "
Bill Gates
Business
Good
World
" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "
Bill Gates
More
Dying
Any
" I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. "
Bill Gates
Focus
Children
Thinking
" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "
Bill Gates
Think
Super
Religion