Bill Gates Port Quotations

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

Software is more important than hardware.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!

I don't think it's constructive to grow up having billions of dollars. . . . The idea that I will take a sizeable portion of my fortune and have them inherit that, I don't think that would be to society's benefit or to their benefit. I've spoken out about this before . . . my philosophy of giving back my wealth to society.

I think if you go out five years from now, and look at portable computers, virtually all of those will have this tablet capability.

Nathan has been an invaluable contributor to Microsoft, the technology industry and to me personally over the past 13 years. Frankly, I would rather he continue his work at Microsoft, but I support his decision to take a much needed break and explore his passion for science.

This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive, ... We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us ? still, the opportunity to lead is very clear.

We are pleased that a number of states have joined the Department of Justice in supporting this settlement, ... The fact that so many states have joined the federal government in supporting this agreement is a very significant, positive step toward resolving these issues once and for all.

The government's argument boils down to a claim that we are putting too much Internet support into our products, ... This is a turnaround from what everyone was saying a few years ago.

It's a concept that in the past might have been thought of as an executive information system that was just for a few top people, ... It'd take millions of dollars to set up, the system would be hard-wired, and it would provide only a subset of data. Today, in literally minutes you can add data and status reports and your personal digital dashboard will update that.

Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.

There's more opportunity for software than there has ever been ... in a sense, you can say that you haven't seen anything yet,

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

Microsoft's key goal is to be able to have the freedom to innovate like we always have, where we decide what goes into the product, where we can support the Internet in the product, ... We're simply sticking up for that. We're hard at work on the new products while the competitors are trying to use regulation to slow us down.

It's very exciting to renew our commitment to the Macintosh. We're very pleased to be supporting Apple. We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry.

With the launch of Energy City, we have the opportunity to work together to create new tools and solutions that will enable oil and gas companies to achieve new levels of performance in every phase of their business.

The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria R&D,

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

Everything we did that's in that trial, including support for the Internet, it's one of the greatest things we've ever done.

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

Whether it's real-time communications, the speed or the consumer scenarios like photos and music, we're creating a platform that not only has what we're calling new experiences built in, but creates overall opportunity for third parties,

While our companies will continue to compete, I'm pleased that we've been able to resolve our prior dispute, and I'm excited about the opportunity to work together collaboratively to make the digital decade a reality,

I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today.

We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.

The opportunity to engage people who are very far away from each other and yet might have interesting information is better here than has ever been possible.

The opportunity to do better software has never been stronger. We talk about this digital decade and people living a digital work style or a digital lifestyle when they go home -and that is becoming more and more commonly accepted. As you move things away from paperwork and onto the digital approach, everything is software value-added.

But as long as there is year-by-year progress, it holds a great opportunity for us in terms of scale, which helps us do more, and it's a great place where we have people working for us.