#people

I'm 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 they're interested in. ↗

— Bill Gates

#achieve #any #believer #each #effects

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. ↗

— Bill Gates

#believe #i #i believe #i believe that #moved

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. ↗

— Bill Gates

#always #change #coal #come #electricity

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. ↗

— Bill Gates

#coffee #go #jobs #leave #life

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #beg #binary #bow #coming

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. ↗

— Bill Gates

#able #back #because #being #creative

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. ↗

— Bill Gates

#expectations #first-class #form #people #true

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. ↗

— Bill Gates

#like #likes #microsoft #no-one #pc

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#empowering #get #i #important #involved