Bill Gates Quotes
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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Inspiration starts somewhere.
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I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
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The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.
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Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
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My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
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Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence...
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If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
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My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away.
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Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
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For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.
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You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.
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Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to Warren Buffett, that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
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Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.
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The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support.
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The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.
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In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.
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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.