Bill Gates Quotes And Sayings

Understanding Science And Pushing The Boundaries Of Science Is What Makes Me Immensely Satisfied.

Ok, I Have A Nickname. My Family Calls Me 'Trey' Because I'm William The Third. My Dad Has The Same Name, Which Is Always Confusing Because My Dad Is Well Known, And I'm Also Known.

Of My Mental Cycles, I Devote Maybe Ten Percent To Business Thinking. Business Isn't That Complicated. I Wouldn't Want To Put It On My Business Card.

It Is Hard To Overstate How Valuable It Is To Have All The Incredible Tools That Are Used For Human Disease To Study Plants.

Over Time, Yes, Countries Will Need To Look At Specific Gmo Products Like They Look At Drugs Today, Where They Don't Approve Them All. They Look Hard At The Safety And The Testing. And They Make Sure That The Benefits Far Outweigh Any Of The Downsides.

The Malaria Parasite Has Been Killing Children And Sapping The Strength Of Whole Populations For Tens Of Thousands Of Years. It Is Impossible To Calculate The Harm Malaria Has Done To The World.

In Ninth Grade, I Came Up With A New Form Of Rebellion. I Hadn't Been Getting Good Grades, But I Decided To Get All A's Without Taking A Book Home. I Didn't Go To Math Class, Because I Knew Enough And Had Read Ahead, And I Placed Within The Top 10 People In The Nation On An Aptitude Exam.

I Don't Think There's Anything Unique About Human Intelligence.

Eventually We'll Be Able To Sequence The Human Genome And Replicate How Nature Did Intelligence In A Carbon-based System.

It's Possible - You Can Never Know - That The Universe Exists Only For Me. If So, It's Sure Going Well For Me, I Must Admit.

Steve Jobs' Ability To Focus In On A Few Things That Count, Get People Who Get User Interface Right, And Market Things As Revolutionary Are Amazing Things.

The Potential Financial Reward For Building The 'Next Windows' Is So Great That There Will Never Be A Shortage Of New Technologies Seeking To Challenge It.

The Most Impactful Dollars That Australia Can Spend Are Actually What Goes To Help The Poorest.

The Moral Systems Of Religion, I Think, Are Super Important.

I've Been Very Lucky, And Therefore I Owe It To Try And Reduce The Inequity In The World. And That's Kind Of A Religious Belief. I Mean, It's At Least A Moral Belief.

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.

Newspaper Readership Is Still Growing In India.

I Understand How Every Healthy Child, Every New Road, Puts A Country On A Better Path, But Instability And War Will Arise From Time To Time, And I'm Not An Expert On How You Get Out Of Those Things.

The Way To Be Successful In The Software World Is To Come Up With Breakthrough Software, And So Whether It's Microsoft Office Or Windows, Its Pushing That Forward. New Ideas, Surprising The Marketplace, So Good Engineering And Good Business Are One In The Same.

I Don't Think There's A... Boundary Between Digital Media And Print Media. Every Magazine Is Doing An Online Version.

There Is A Difference Between What Technology Enables And What Historical Business Practices Enable.

U.k. Companies Are In Very International And Very Competitive Markets. If You Look At Pc Penetration In The U.k., It Is Very Similar To The United States Market.

People Should Just Buy A Cd And Rip It. You Are Legal Then.

There Certainly Is A Case To Be Made That Taxes Should Be More Progressive.

In Order To Deal With All The Medical Cost Demands And Other Challenges In The U.s., As We Look To Raise That Revenue, The Rich Will Have To Pay Slightly More. That's Quite Clear.

I Can Understand Wanting To Have Millions Of Dollars; There's A Certain Freedom, Meaningful Freedom, That Comes With That.

The World At Large Is Less Inequitable Today Than At Any Time In History. Number Of People In Abject Poverty, As A Percentage, Is At All-time Low.

Personally, I'd Like To See More Of Our Leaders Take A Technocratic Approach To Solving Our Biggest Problems.

Software Innovation, Like Almost Every Other Kind Of Innovation, Requires The Ability To Collaborate And Share Ideas With Other People, And To Sit Down And Talk With Customers And Get Their Feedback And Understand Their Needs.

There Is No Author Whose Books I Look Forward To More Than Vaclav Smil.

Digital Technology Has Several Features That Can Make It Much Easier For Teachers To Pay Special Attention To All Their Students.

The Belief That The World Is Getting Worse, That We Can't Solve Extreme Poverty And Disease, Isn't Just Mistaken. It Is Harmful.

India Has Over 20 Percent Of The Kids Born In The World. And They Move Around A Lot.

Headlines, In A Way, Are What Mislead You Because Bad News Is A Headline, And Gradual Improvement Is Not.

Well-spent Aid Money Is Saving Lives For A Few Thousand Dollars Per Life Saved.

I Have Been Struck Again And Again By How Important Measurement Is To Improving The Human Condition.

It's Ok For China To Invent Cancer Drugs That Cure Patients In The United States. We Want Them To Catch Up. But As The Leader, We Want To Keep Setting A Very, Very High Standard. We Don't Want Them To Catch Up Because We're Slowing Down Or, Even Worse, Going Into Reverse.

Connectivity Enables Transparency For Better Government, Education, And Health.

If I Hadn't Given My Money Away, I'd Have Had More Than Anyone Else On The Planet.

By The Time We See That Climate Change Is Really Bad, Your Ability To Fix It Is Extremely Limited... The Carbon Gets Up There, But The Heating Effect Is Delayed. And Then The Effect Of That Heat On The Species And Ecosystem Is Delayed. That Means That Even When You Turn Virtuous, Things Are Actually Going To Get Worse For Quite A While.

Philanthropy Should Be Voluntary.

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.

Capitalism Has Shortfalls. It Doesn't Necessarily Take Care Of The Poor, And It Underfunds Innovation, So We Have To Offset That.

Windows 8 Is Key To The Future, The Surface Computer.

Bitcoin Is Mostly About Anonymous Transactions, And I Don't Think Over Time That's A Good Way To Go. I'm A Huge Believe In Digital Currency... But Doing It On An Anonymous Basis I Think That Leads To Some Abuses, So I'm Not Involved In Bitcoin.

Software Substitution, Whether It's For Drivers Or Waiters Or Nurses - It's Progressing. Technology Over Time Will Reduce Demand For Jobs, Particularly At The Lower End Of Skill Set.

Skype Actually Does Get A Fair Bit Of Revenue.

It's A Nice Reader, But There's Nothing On The Ipad I Look At And Say, 'Oh, I Wish Microsoft Had Done It.'

I Agree With People Like Richard Dawkins That Mankind Felt The Need For Creation Myths. Before We Really Began To Understand Disease And The Weather And Things Like That, We Sought False Explanations For Them. Now Science Has Filled In Some Of The Realm - Not All - That Religion Used To Fill.

Most Poor People Live In The Poorest Countries.