Bill Gates Quotes
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The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
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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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Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
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I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
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Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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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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Warren Buffett met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.
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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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I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
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Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
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When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
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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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I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.
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The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.
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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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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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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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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
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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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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.