Quotes by Bill Gates

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

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I spend a lot of time reading.

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.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

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.

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

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.