Bill Gates Chin Quotations

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

It's possible to do a much better machine . . . You could put a faster processor in. Intel's has the 8086. I think five years from now the amount of software and the quality of the software on this machine will be incredible. It will dwarf what is available on mainframes, minicomputers and other machines.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

We're encouraged by China's efforts to strengthen intellectual property protection, which will provide the foundation for continued expansion of the IT industry in China. We look forward to working with the Chinese government and partner companies in China to create new opportunities for growth.