Bill Gates Quotes And Sayings

Effective Philanthropy Requires A Lot Of Time And Creativity - The Same Kind Of Focus And Skills That Building A Business Requires.

Some People, Through Luck And Skill, End Up With A Lot Of Assets. If You're Good At Kicking A Ball, Writing Software, Investing In Stocks, It Pays Extremely Well.

Music, Even With These Dial-up Connections You Have To The Internet, Is Very Practical To Download.

I Like The Idea Of Putting Your Christmas Wish List Up And Letting People Share It.

I've Always Been Interested In Science - One Of My Favourite Books Is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology Of The Gene.'

I'm An Investor In A Number Of Biotech Companies, Partly Because Of My Incredible Enthusiasm For The Great Innovations They Will Bring.

I Don't Generally Read A Lot Of Fiction.

Eventually, All Companies Are Replaced.

Ninety Percent Of The Cases Of Polio Are In Security-vulnerable Areas.

I Am Results-oriented.

By 2035, There Will Be Almost No Poor Countries Left In The World. Almost All Countries Will Be What We Now Call Lower-middle Income Or Richer.

Success Is A Lousy Teacher. It Seduces Smart People Into Thinking They Can't Lose.

What's Amazing Is, If Young People Understood How Doing Well In School Makes The Rest Of Their Life So Much Interesting, They Would Be More Motivated. It's So Far Away In Time That They Can't Appreciate What It Means For Their Whole Life.

A Lot Of The Things That Will Really Improve The World Fortunately Aren't Dependent On Washington Doing Something Different.

We Have To Find A Way To Make The Aspects Of Capitalism That Serve Wealthier People Serve Poorer People As Well.

The Idea That You Encourage Companies To Take Their Innovative Thinkers And Think About The Most Needy - Even Beyond The Market Opportunities - That's Something That Appropriately Ought To Be Done.

China Has Many Successful Entrepreneurs And Business People. I Hope That More People Of Insight Will Put Their Talents To Work To Improve The Lives Of Poor People In China And Around The World, And Seek Solutions For Them.

Investing For The Poor Requires Participation From The Entire Community.

I Believe The Returns On Investment In The Poor Are Just As Exciting As Successes Achieved In The Business Arena, And They Are Even More Meaningful!

Innovation Is Moving At A Scarily Fast Pace.

The Only Definition By Which America's Best Days Are Behind It Is On A Purely Relative Basis.

Exposure From A Young Age To The Realities Of The World Is A Super-big Thing.

One Of The Statistics That Always Amazes Me Is The Approval Of The Chinese Government, Not Elected, Is Over 80 Percent. The Approval Of The U.s. Government, Fully Elected, Is 19 Percent. Well, We Elected These People And They Didn't Elect Those People. Isn't It Supposed To Be Different? Aren't We Supposed To Like The People That We Elected?

If You Go Back To 1800, Everybody Was Poor. I Mean Everybody. The Industrial Revolution Kicked In, And A Lot Of Countries Benefited, But By No Means Everyone.

Considering Their Impact, You Might Expect Mosquitoes To Get More Attention Than They Do. Sharks Kill Fewer Than A Dozen People Every Year, And In The U.s. They Get A Week Dedicated To Them On Tv Every Year.

Philanthropy Should Be Taking Much Bigger Risks That Business. If These Are Easy Problems, Business And Government Can Come In And Solve Them.

No One Person Controls Microsoft. The Board And The Shareholders Decide Whether They Want To Have Me As Ceo.

I'm Going To Retain A Lot Of Microsoft's Stock.

People Are Using Windows Pcs More Than They Watch Tv Now.

Our Teachers Deserve Better Feedback.

I Have A Nice Office. I Have A Nice House... So I'm Not Denying Myself Some Great Things. I Just Don't Happen To Have Expensive Hobbies.

Should Surveillance Be Usable For Petty Crimes Like Jaywalking Or Minor Drug Possession? Or Is There A Higher Threshold For Certain Information? Those Aren't Easy Questions.

I Don't Like Typing Messages On My Phone. Some People Get Used To It.

Common Core Is A Big Win For Education.

If You Have 50 Different Plug Types, Appliances Wouldn't Be Available And Would Be Very Expensive. But Once An Electric Outlet Becomes Standardized, Many Companies Can Design Appliances, And Competition Ensues, Creating Variety And Better Prices For Consumers.

There Are Gmo Skeptics More In Europe Maybe Than In Other Places, But Not Exclusively.

Drones Overall Will Be More Impactful Than I Think People Recognize, In Positive Ways To Help Society.

The Green Revolution Focused On The Big Three - Maize, Rice And Wheat - And The Green Revolution Did Not Adapt The Big Three To African Conditions, Other Than South Africa, As Much As They Should Have.

K To 12 Is Partly About Babysitting The Kids So The Parents Can Do Other Things.

Security Guys Break The Mac Every Single Day. Every Single Day, They Come Out With A Total Exploit; Your Machine Can Be Taken Over Totally.

The Truth Of Moore's Law Has Made Remarkable Things Possible. On The Software Side, I Think Natural User Interfaces In All Their Forms Are Equally Significant.

In 80% Of The World, Energy Will Be Bought Where It Is Economic. You Have To Help The Rest Of The World Get Energy At A Reasonable Price.

Whenever You Have Multiple Devices Including Multiple Pcs That You Want To Share Information With, It's Always Been A Bit Complicated.

Certainly, The Windows Share Of Servers Is Strong.

Outlook 2003 Did Create The Idea Of Search Folders And The Whole Longhorn Philosophy. You Can See It At Work In Search Folders, Where Instead Of Having To Drop Things Into Individual Folders, And Things Exist Only In One Folder, You Create These Search Folders And You Have The Criteria For The Search Folder.

We All Sort Of Do Want Incentives For Creative People To Still Exist At A Certain Level. You Know, Maybe Rock Stars Shouldn't Make As Much; Who Knows? But You Want As Much Creativity To Take Place In The Future As Took Place In The Past.

Research Shows That There Is Only Half As Much Variation In Student Achievement Between Schools As There Is Among Classrooms In The Same School. If You Want Your Child To Get The Best Education Possible, It Is Actually More Important To Get Him Assigned To A Great Teacher Than To A Great School.

Two Out Of Every Five People On Earth Today Owe Their Lives To The Higher Crop Outputs That Fertilizer Has Made Possible.

Technology Is Unlocking The Innate Compassion We Have For Our Fellow Human Beings.

I Don't Have A Magic Formula For Prioritizing The World's Problems.