Bill Gates Quotes
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Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
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How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
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Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
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That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.
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The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
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In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three parts. One is the office. That's the one I'm most excited about and is the most concrete.
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Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.
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The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.
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For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
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It was really phenomenal Warren Buffett donation. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.
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You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
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The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.
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Vision without execution is daydreaming.
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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
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Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
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If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
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Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
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Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
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In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
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In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.