Bill Gates Quotes

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.

I wouldn't be anywhere without the Internet.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.

Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.

Can you explain what Internet is?

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.