Bill Gates Quotes
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The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.
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Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.
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You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses...
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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
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I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.
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Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
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I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.
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It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of hundreds of people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.
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It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
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If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.
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This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.
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I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
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We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence - presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something.
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
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The internet is just a passing fad.
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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
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We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.