Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

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

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.