Bill Gates Quotes
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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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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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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.
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Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
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Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.
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Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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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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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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Our teachers deserve better feedback.
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You can be a business thinker.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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I get more spam than anyone I know.
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Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.
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I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.
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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
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The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.
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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
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If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
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Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.
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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.