Quotes by Bill Gates

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was satisfactory, I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I dont want to get malaria.

Its fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasnt cool.

I think its fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool weve ever created. Theyre tools of communication, theyre tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Im a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that theyre interested in.

Eventually you wont think of the Internet business. Youll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isnt clear.

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 dont solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Ive always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watsons Molecular Biology of the Gene.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: Does your teacher use class time well? and, When youre confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

The U.S. couldnt even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. Theyll be killing each other again in less than a year. Im sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. Theres a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Eventually well be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I dont think theres anything unique about human intelligence.