People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for mu….

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that..

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that'….

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6.….

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 ….

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….

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children ….

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..

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on i….

I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resource….

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right..

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The ….

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a par….

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 th….

You can be a business thinker..

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 co….

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's dauntin….

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" t….

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively..

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type s….

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..