Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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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.
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
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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 vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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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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We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
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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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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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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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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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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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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.