Bill Gates Quotes
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Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
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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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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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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
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Patience is a key element of success.
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We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.
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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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If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.
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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
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The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
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If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
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Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.
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The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
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You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.
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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
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We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.
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Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.
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I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.Bill Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the George Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR.
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Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
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This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing audience laughter and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.
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If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!