Quotes from Bill Gates

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

Life's not fair, get over it!

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.