Bill Gates Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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  Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Trust, Leadership

• Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

  Bill Gates

  Science, Technology, Innovation

• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Everyday, Fit

• 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

  Success, Technology, Car

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Teacher

  1997 In the Independent on Sunday, 12 Oct.

• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

• 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

  Inspirational, Fear, Ignorance

• When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, People, Important

• We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Technology, Finishing

• Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Elderly, Play

  "A Robot in Every Home" by Bill Gates, www.scientificamerican.com. February 1, 2008.

• We're changing the world with technology.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, World, Changing The World

• We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Thinking, Transition

  "Bill Gates: The future according to the world's richest man". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. March 20, 2006.

• A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Average, Computer

• Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, Thoughtful

• Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

• Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  "Bill Gates on Robots" by Peter Hoare, www.askmen.com.

• The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

  Bill Gates

  Notebook, Technology, Matter

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

• We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

  Bill Gates

  Technology

• Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

• These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Technology, Opportunity

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007), Bill Gates (2008). “Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008”

• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

• The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

• Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

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