Bill Gates Quotes
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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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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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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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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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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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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The UK is a very international country.
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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
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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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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 mainstream is always under attack.
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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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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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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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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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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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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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The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
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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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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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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.