Bill Gates Quotes
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So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
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There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.
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The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
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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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There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.
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I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
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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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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
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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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We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
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The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.
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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.
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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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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
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We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
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Common Core is a big win for education.
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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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Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
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President George Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy.
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My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.
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As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.
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Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.