Bill Gates Quotes
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The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
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Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
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In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.
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I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.
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Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
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The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
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Bitcoin is a technological tour de force...
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OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
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If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
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Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.
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I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
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The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
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Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
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Creativity allows people to be effective.
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As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.
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Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.
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It's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
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If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
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Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.