Bill Gates Quotes
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We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
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The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.
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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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The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
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The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
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Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.
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Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.
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I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.
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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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This antitrust thing will blow over.
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Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.
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We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993...
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Even when things are stable, that's not easy to work in Africa because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.
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The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.
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I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
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Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
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We US are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.
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The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
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When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.
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Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.