#w

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? ↗

— Bill Gates

#about #actually #another #away #confused

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. ↗

— Bill Gates

#cars #computer #computer industry #driving #gm

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ↗

— Bill Gates

#co2 #create #electricity #emerging #energy

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? ↗

— Bill Gates

#crossed #finish #finish line #had #i

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

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. ↗

— Bill Gates

#competitors #fantastic #free #free software #google

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. ↗

— Bill Gates

#business #business world #change #entering #fantastic

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. ↗

— Bill Gates

#cleaned #educating #every #fantastic #inner

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

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. ↗

— Bill Gates

#capitalism #korea #move #north #north korea