Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
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Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
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It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
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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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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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Common Core is a big win for education.
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The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.
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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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We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.
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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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I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
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Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.
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I am super lucky. I've been in the area where things have been changing and been part of the digital revolution, the magic of software, the internet, the computer, and now the cellphone... so it's been a great privilege.
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If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
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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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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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AIDS is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
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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.