Quotes & Sayings About The Internet Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. — Bill Gates

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business — Bill Gates

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything. — Bill Gates

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

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects. — Bill Gates

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL. — Bill Gates

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years. — Bill Gates

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. — John Podhoretz

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

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

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

When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic. — Bill Gates

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

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

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

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day. — Bill Gates

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage. — Jonathan Raymond

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

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment. — Bill Gates

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

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. — Jim Clark

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy. — Bill Gates

The internet is just a passing fad. — Bill Gates

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

The future of advertising is the Internet. — Bill Gates

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into. — Bill Gates

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. — Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. — Bill Gates

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business. — Bill Gates

Everything on the internet is real god damn it! — Bill Gates

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

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

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. — Bill Gates

A New Campus: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ann Bowers. Steve Jobs, appearance before the Cupertino City Council, June 7, 2011. CHAPTER 41: ROUND THREE Family Ties: Interviews with Laurene Powell, Erin Jobs, Steve Jobs, Kathryn Smith, Jennifer Egan. Email from Steve Jobs, June 8, 2010, 4:55 p.m.; Tina Redse to Steve Jobs, July 20, 2010, and Feb. 6, 2011. President Obama: Interviews with David Axelrod, Steve Jobs, John Doerr, Laurene Powell, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Schmidt, Austan Goolsbee. Third Medical Leave, 2011: Interviews with Kathryn Smith, Steve Jobs, Larry Brilliant. Visitors: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mike Slade. CHAPTER 42: LEGACY Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It (Yale, 2008), 2; Cory Doctorow, Why I Won't Buy an iPad, — Walter Isaacson

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. — Bill Gates

The Internet? We are not interested in it — Bill Gates