Bill Gates Quotes
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WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
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Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.
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If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.
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Make it just like a Mac.
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It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
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Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
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In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
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The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
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But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
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You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.
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The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
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Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
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Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.
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Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
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If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
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Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
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Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.
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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
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Patience is a key element of success.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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Exposure to the reproductions of Corbis-owned fine art photographs is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.