Bill Gates Quotes
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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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In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
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We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.
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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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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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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.
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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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Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
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There's life and death in every email.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
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Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
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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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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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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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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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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 believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.
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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.