Bill Gates Quotes
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
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Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
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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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When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.
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There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
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The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
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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 years from now, spam will be solved.
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If we Microsoft Corporation weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
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The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
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If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.
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In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
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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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I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
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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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Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.
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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
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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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Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.