Bill Gates Quotes And Sayings

I Think When Smallpox Was Eliminated, The Whole World Got Pretty Excited About That Because It's Just Such A Dramatic Success.

My Experience Of Malaria Was Just Taking Anti-malarials, Which Give You Strange Dreams, Because I Don't Want To Get Malaria.

Nobody Believes In Completely Unadulterated Capitalism.

I Don't Think Culture Is Something You Can Describe.

People Are Always Coming Up To Me And Saying, 'I Heard Your Dad's Speech, And It's Really Great.' And They'll Mention Some Place I Didn't Even Know My Dad Was Going To.

Given How Few Young People Actually Read The Newspaper, It's A Good Thing They'll Be Reading A Newspaper On A Screen.

Driving Up The Value Of The Advertising Is A Big Commitment For Microsoft.

Climate Change Is A Terrible Problem, And It Absolutely Needs To Be Solved. It Deserves To Be A Huge Priority.

It's The Poorer People In Tropical Zones Who Will Get Really Hit By Climate Change - As Well As Some Ecosystems, Which Nobody Wants To See Disappear.

In Order For The United States To Do The Right Things For The Long Term, It Appears To Be Helpful For Us To Have The Prospect Of Humiliation. Sputnik Helped Us Fund Good Science - Really Good Science: The Semiconductor Came Out Of It.

The Nuclear Approach I'm Involved In Is Called A Traveling-wave Reactor, Which Uses Waste Uranium For Fuel. There's A Lot Of Things That Have To Go Right For That Dream To Come True - Many Decades Of Building Demo Plants, Proving The Economics Are Right. But If It Does, You Could Have Cheaper Energy With No Co2 Emissions.

When Ford Sells A Car, A Dealer Isn't Allowed To Take Out The Engine And Put A Different One In. When A Newsstand Sells The Washington Post, No One Can Go To The Newsstand And Pay Them To Rip Out The Classified Section And Put Their Own Classified Section In - If They Could, They Would Do So.

Like Any Well Designed Software Product, Windows Is Designed, Developed And Tested As An Integrated Whole.

Microsoft Research Has A Thing Called The Sense Cam That, As You Walk Around, It's Taking Photos All The Time. And The Software Will Filter And Find The Ones That Are Interesting Without Having To Think, 'Let's Get Out The Camera And Get That Shot.' You Just Have That, And Software Helps You Pick What You Want.

Google's Done A Super Good Job On Search; Apple's Done A Great Job On The Ipod.

China Is Certainly An Important Player In The Global Economy, And A Widespread Aids Epidemic Would Threaten That Growth.

The Fight Against Aids In China Is Already Well Underway. The Chinese Government And Other Funders Are Providing Major Support, And They'll Continue To Bear Primary Responsibility For Delivering Prevention And Treatment.

The Most Amazing Philanthropists Are People Who Are Actually Making A Significant Sacrifice.

Aids Itself Is Subject To Incredible Stigma.

It's Easier To Add Things On To A Pc Than It's Ever Been Before. It's One Click, And Boom, It Comes Down.

If You Count E-mail, I'm On The Internet All Day, Every Day.

The Outpouring Of Support From Millions Of People In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Earthquake In Haiti Has Been Impressive.

Antitrust Is The Way That The Government Promotes Markets When There Are Market Failures. It Has Nothing To Do With The Idea Of Free Information.

Haiti Should Remind Us All That There Is An Immediate Need To Invest In And Promote Long-term Development Projects That Are Sustainable, Scalable, And Proven To Work.

The Microprocessor Is A Miracle.

Really Advanced Civilization Is Based On Advances In Energy.

The Common Thread For Everything I Do Is This Idea Of A Web-services Architecture. What Does That Mean? It Means Taking Components Of Software And Systems And Having Them Be Self-describing, So That You Can Aim Them, Ask Them What Their Capabilities Are, And Communicate With Them Using A Standard Protocol.

I Didn't Used To Wear A Watch. Now I Have A Spot Watch, Which I Wear All The Time.

When Paul Allen And I Started Microsoft Over 30 Years Ago, We Had Big Dreams About Software. We Had Dreams About The Impact It Could Have.

Americans Move More Than 10 Times Over The Course Of A Lifetime.

Americans Want Students To Get The Best Education Possible. We Want Schools To Prepare Children To Become Good Citizens And Members Of A Prosperous American Economy.

Everyone Needs A Coach. It Doesn't Matter Whether You're A Basketball Player, A Tennis Player, A Gymnast Or A Bridge Player.

If All My Bridge Coach Ever Told Me Was That I Was 'Satisfactory,' I Would Have No Hope Of Ever Getting Better. How Would I Know Who Was The Best? How Would I Know What I Was Doing Differently?

Nigeria Has Moved Into Low-middle-income, But Their North Is Very Poor, And The Health Care Systems There Have Broken Down.

Middle-income Countries Are The Biggest Users Of Gmos. Places Like Brazil.

I Have A Particular Relationship With Vinod Khosla Because He's Got A Lot Of Very Interesting Science-based Energy Startups.

I Think The Positive Competition Between States In India Is One Of The Most Positive Dynamics That The Country Has.

My Son Likes To Go See Mines And Electric Plants, Or The Large Hadron Collider, And We've Had A Chance To See A Lot Of Interesting Stuff.

I Would Counsel People To Go To College, Because It's One Of The Best Times In Your Life In Terms Of Who You Meet And Develop A Broad Set Of Intellectual Skills.

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.

The Ideal Thing Would Be To Have A 100 Percent Effective Aids Vaccine. And To Have Broad Usage Of That Vaccine. That Would Literally Break The Epidemic.

People Don't Want Lots And Lots Of Single Purpose Devices. They Do Not Want To Have To Learn How To Set Up Something For Photos, Another Thing For Music, Another Thing For Video.

In Almost Every Job Now, People Use Software And Work With Information To Enable Their Organisation To Operate More Effectively.

A Lot Of People Assume That Creating Software Is Purely A Solitary Activity Where You Sit In An Office With The Door Closed All Day And Write Lots Of Code.

I Think That Society Has To Be Careful Not To Shift All Of Its Resources To The Elderly Versus The Young.

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%.

Even With Cameras Being Very Cheap, One Thing That Researchers Noticed Was That You Look Really Bad In A Videoconference Image Because The Lighting Is Bad And You Get Shadows And Things.

Harnessing Steam Power Required Many Innovations, As William Rosen Chronicles In The Book 'The Most Powerful Idea In The World.'

According To Ethiopian Custom, Parents Wait To Name A Baby Because Children Often Die In The First Weeks Of Life.

In Poor Countries, We Still Need Better Ways To Measure The Effectiveness Of The Many Government Workers Providing Health Services. They Are The Crucial Link Bringing Tools Such As Vaccines And Education To The People Who Need Them Most. How Well Trained Are They? Are They Showing Up To Work?