Bill Gates Quotes
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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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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Taxes are an investment in America.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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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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Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you...
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The UK is a very international country.
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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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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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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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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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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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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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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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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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That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.
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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.
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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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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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I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.
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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.