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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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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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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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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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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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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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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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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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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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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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
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Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
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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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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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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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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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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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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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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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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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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?