Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?
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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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We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.
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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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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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Our teachers deserve better feedback.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.
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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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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
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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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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
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I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
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Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.
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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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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'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.