Bill Gates Quotes
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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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The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
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The future of advertising is the Internet.
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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
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The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.
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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
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Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?
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If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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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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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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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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A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't mean that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.
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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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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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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.
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The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
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The best teacher is very interactive.
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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
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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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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.