Bill Gates Quotes
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We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.
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No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
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The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.
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The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
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The scientific understanding of some of these childhood diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.
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Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
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In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.
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The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.
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On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
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I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
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In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
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'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.
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There are ecosystems like coral reefs at risk through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.
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I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
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China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
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It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
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I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.
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We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
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The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
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I think Ebola is a great example of where the world really needs to come together. The three countries where this outbreak took place have had a lot of civil war, very weak health systems. And so, it did take a while for people to understand ....that eventually what we saw was a very unique Ebola epidemic. I think it is quite impressive what's being pulled together, and I think we will be able to get this under control.
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The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.
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By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.