Bill Gates Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.”

“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.”

“Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.”

“It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.”

“I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.”

“The future of advertising is the Internet.”

“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.”

“Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.”

“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.”

“I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.”