Bill Gates Quotes
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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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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
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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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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
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People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.
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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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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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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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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.
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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 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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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
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I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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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 don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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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 computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.