Bill Gates Quotes
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On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.
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You can be a business thinker.
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Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.
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When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.
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Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.
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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
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I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
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When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives.
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.
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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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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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Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
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There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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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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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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Success is a lousy teacher.