Bill Gates Quotes
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Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.
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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.
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The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
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I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.
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To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime...Born
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It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
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It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of hundreds of people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.
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I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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And knowledge management is a means, not an end.
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Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
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The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.
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It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.
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Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.
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We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence - presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something.