Bill Gates Quotes
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Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's well accepted. I mean, it's not politically controversial that this is a great humanitarian effort. But budgets are very very tight.
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Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.
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Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
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The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
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The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.
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I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
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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 believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
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I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.
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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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Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.
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Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
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We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.
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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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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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Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?
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Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
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I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
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In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
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The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.
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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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Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.