Bill Gates Quotes
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What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'
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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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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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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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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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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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The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
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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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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
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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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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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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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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
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Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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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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There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business...
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The mainstream is always under attack.