Bill Gates Quotes
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We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.
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In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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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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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.
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This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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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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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
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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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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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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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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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Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
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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.