Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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I believe in generous aid policies.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.
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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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Success is a lousy teacher.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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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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See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success...
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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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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If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
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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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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
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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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If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.
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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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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.