Bill Gates Quotes
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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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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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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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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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There's life and death in every email.
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The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.
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You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
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That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
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I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.
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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
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Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
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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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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
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I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
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You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.
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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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To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
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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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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
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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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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.