Bill Gates Quotes
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If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.
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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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Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.
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The mainstream is always under attack.
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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
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The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
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Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
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I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.
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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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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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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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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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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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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
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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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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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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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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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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.