Bill Gates Quotes
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
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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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We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
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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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We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
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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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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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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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Long-term vision and product strategy.
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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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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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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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Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.
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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
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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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While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.
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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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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 actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.