Bill Gates Quotes
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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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You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses...
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Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.
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In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand. 'Bill Gates - Rotary International' Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (21 January 2009)
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Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.
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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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I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
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I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.
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I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees...
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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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The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.
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If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
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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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Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
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In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.
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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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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
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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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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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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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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.