Bill Gates Quotes
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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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If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
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At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
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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 have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.
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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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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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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 don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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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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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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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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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
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I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
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Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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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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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
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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.