Bill Gates Quotes
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Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.
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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.
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I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
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I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.
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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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The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
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Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's less than 6 million a year. We have a clear path to get that under 3 million a year and we know what to do. And this generation of young Africans is a very large group.
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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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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
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People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
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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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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
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As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.
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At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.
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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
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Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
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The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.
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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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Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
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Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
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Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.