Bill Gates Quotes
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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.
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Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
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The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
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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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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
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Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.
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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.
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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
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We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.
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Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
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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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Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.
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We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
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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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Long-term vision and product strategy.
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Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.