Quotes from Bill Gates

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.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

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.

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

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.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Patience is a key element of success.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.