Bill Gates Quotes
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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 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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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
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We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
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It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda Gates and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
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Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
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The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
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I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
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I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.
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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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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.
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We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course Barack Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.
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I think of myself as a global citizen.
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The microprocessor is a miracle.
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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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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
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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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I'm not a macroeconomics person.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.