Bill Gates Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.”

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

“In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.”

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”

“By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.”

“The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.”

“Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.”

“The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.”

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

“Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.”