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

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

— Bill Gates

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

— Bill Gates

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

— Bill Gates

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

— Bill Gates

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

— Bill Gates

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

— Bill Gates

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

— Bill Gates

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

— Bill Gates

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

— Bill Gates