Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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Taxes are an investment in America.
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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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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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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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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 agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
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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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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
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We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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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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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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I believe in generous aid policies.