Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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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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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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There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business...
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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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Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.
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The UK is a very international country.
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That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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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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Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you...
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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
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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.