Quotes from Bill Gates

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class — based on test scores — by over 10 percent in a single year. … That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

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

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

People everywhere love Windows.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.