Bill Gates Quotes
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Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.
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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.
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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
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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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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
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Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.
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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
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Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.
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When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
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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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I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.
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Don't let complexity stop you.
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I think of myself as a global citizen.
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Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
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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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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
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The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
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SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
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The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
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By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
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We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.