Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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If you're a guest at my $113 million house, you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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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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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
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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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Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.
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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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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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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.
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A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.
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If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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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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There is this thing called the GPL Gnu Public Licence, which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
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The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
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There's life and death in every email.
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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
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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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When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
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Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
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I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.