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

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

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity – Bill Gates

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down – Bill Gates

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large – Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? – Bill Gates