Bill Gates Quotes
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The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.
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My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.
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For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
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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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China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
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You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.
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There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.
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Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
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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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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
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Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
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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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Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
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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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Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
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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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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
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Don't let complexity stop you.
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In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.