Bill Gates Quotes
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You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.
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The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
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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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Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
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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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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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Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
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You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.
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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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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
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As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.
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Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
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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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India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
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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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The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.
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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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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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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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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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This antitrust thing will blow over.
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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.