Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
― Bill Gates tags: activism, choices, life, society 448 likes/shares
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
― Bill Gates 277 likes/shares
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about
yourself.
― Bill Gates 134 likes/shares
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
― Bill Gates tags: natural-abilities, people 114 likes/shares
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
― Bill Gates tags: reading 112 likes/shares
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
― Bill Gates 39 likes/shares
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
― Bill Gates tags: science 16 likes/shares
The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about whats going on so they can do a lot more than theyve done in the past.
― Bill Gates 15 likes/shares
So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.
― Bill Gates