Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Parents

Growing Up

Volunteer

" I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett. "

" Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' "

" Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder. "

" You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well. "

" Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. "

Bill Gates

Apple

Job

" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "

" Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. "

" The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. "

" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "

Bill Gates

Government

Be Different

" Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. "

" I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. "

" I'm not a macroeconomics person. "

Bill Gates

Person

" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "

" Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. "

" K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. "

" Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. "

Bill Gates

Tough

Discrimination

" In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively. "

" Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. "

" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "

" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "

" Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. "

" One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' "

" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "

" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "

" The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it. "

" 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. "

" Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. "

" China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. "

" Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it. "