Bill Gates Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

• 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 Internet? We are not interested in it

  Bill Gates

  Microsoft, Computer, Internet

• Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

  Bill Gates

  Family, Time, Kids

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". INterview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

• If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

  Bill Gates

  Marketing, Internet, Network Marketing

• The internet is just a passing fad.

  Bill Gates

  Fads, Internet, Passing

• We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Business, Communication

• With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Hands, Library

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Money, Funny Inspirational

• 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

• 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

• Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

  Bill Gates

  Care, May, Today

• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Business

  "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2003.

• There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

  Bill Gates

  Block, Government, Perfect

  Interview with Richard Waters, www.ft.com. February 15, 2006.

• Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, Priorities, Example

  Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

• I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Littles, Computer

• Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Thinking, Hype

  "Gates opens CES with Scorn". www.wired.com. January 5, 2006.

• I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

  Bill Gates

  Encouragement, Jobs, People

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

• We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Dream, Money

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

• It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Ideas, World

• We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Shopping, Adults

• Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Cutting, Design

• Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Finite Number, Numbers

• To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Opportunity, Ideas

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.75, Hachette UK

• Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

  Bill Gates

  Connections, Internet, Downloads

  "Bill Gates predicted the future in January 2000". Interview with Noah Robischon, ew.com. October 28, 2015.

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Games

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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