Bill Gates Quotes
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In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
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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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This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.
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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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I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.
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In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
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Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.
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Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
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Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.
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We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.
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I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
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My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.
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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.
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I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
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With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.