Bill Gates Quotes
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Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
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The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
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The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.
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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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Common Core is a big win for education.
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If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.
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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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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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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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It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
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Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.
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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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The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
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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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Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.
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I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.
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I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.
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The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
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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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This antitrust thing will blow over.
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If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.
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Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.
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Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
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I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.Bill Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the George Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR.