Bill Gates Quotes
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In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.
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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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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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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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Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
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Now we've got that children's death rate down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down.
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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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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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There are ecosystems like coral reefs at risk through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.
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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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America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.
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Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.
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We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.
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Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.
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Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.
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There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.
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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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It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
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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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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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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's even a chance that R&D and innovation budgets might be increased during Donald Trump Administration and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.