Bill Gates Quotes
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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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So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.
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I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
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Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.
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What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
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The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
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Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.
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If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
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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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To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
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Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
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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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Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
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A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
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I have not met Donald Trump and discussed any issues with him. There have been Republican administrations like the George Bush administration who initiated this AIDS generosity. So it's not purely a right-left thing.
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The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
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The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
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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 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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When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.
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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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Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.