Bill Gates Quotes
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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.
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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
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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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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
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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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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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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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We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
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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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Learn from your unhappy customers.
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How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
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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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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
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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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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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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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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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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
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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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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
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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.