Bill Gates Quotes And Sayings

When You Revolutionize Education, You're Taking The Very Mechanism Of How People Be Smarter And Do New Things, And You're Priming The Pump For So Many Incredible Things.

Africa Is On The Rise.

When A Country Has The Skill And Self-confidence To Take Action Against Its Biggest Problems, It Makes Outsiders Eager To Be A Part Of It.

Being Able To See An Activity Log Of Where A Kid Has Been Going On The Internet Is A Good Thing.

This Whole Phenomenon Of The Computer In A Library Is An Amazing Thing.

I Think There Will Be Pcs At Every Price Point.

China Adopted A Capitalist System In The 1980s, And They Went From A 60% Poverty Rate To 10%.

You Can't Have A Rigid View That All New Taxes Are Evil.

There's Always Been A Lot Of Information About Your Activities. Every Phone Number You Dial, Every Credit-card Charge You Make. It's Long Since Passed That A Typical Person Doesn't Leave Footprints.

Employers Have Decided That Having The Breadth Of Knowledge That's Associated With A Four-year Degree Is Often Something They Want To See In The People They Give That Job To.

When I Was Growing Up, My Parents Were Almost Involved In Various Volunteer Things. My Dad Was Head Of Planned Parenthood. And It Was Very Controversial To Be Involved With That.

What Destroys More Self-confidence Than Any Other Educational Thing In America Is Being Assigned To Some Remedial Math When You Get Into Some College, And Then It's Not Taught Very Well And You End Up With This Sense Of, 'Hey, I Can't Really Figure Those Things Out.'

My Mom Was On The United Way Group That Decides How To Allocate The Money And Looks At All The Different Charities And Makes The Very Hard Decisions About Where That Pool Of Funds Is Going To Go.

In The Long Run, Your Human Capital Is Your Main Base Of Competition. Your Leading Indicator Of Where You're Going To Be 20 Years From Now Is How Well You're Doing In Your Education System.

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.

Unfortunately, The Highly Curious Student Is A Small Percentage Of The Kids.

Lectures Should Go From Being Like The Family Singing Around The Piano To High-quality Concerts.

Certainly I'll Never Be Able To Put Myself In The Situation That People Growing Up In The Less Developed Countries Are In. I've Gotten A Bit Of A Sense Of It By Being Out There And Meeting People And Talking With Them.

The Typical Project Design Time For A Large Company Like Ibm - And They Keep Track Of This - Is A Little Over Four Years.

Some Very Poor Countries Run Great Vaccination Systems, And Some Richer Ones Run Terrible Programs.

There's 20 Companies That I Have Investments In - Some Batteries, Some Solar-thermal, One Big Nuclear Thing. We Need Hundreds And Hundreds Of Companies Like That, So That In A 20-year Time Frame We Really Are Starting To Change The Energy Infrastructure.

In Low-income Countries, Getting To A Health Post Is Hard. It's Very Expensive.

Nobody Spends Any Money On Smallpox Unless They Worry About A Bio-terrorist Recreating It.

In Low-income Countries, The Main Problems You Have Is Infectious Diseases.

One Thing I've Always Loved About The Culture At Microsoft Is There Is Nobody Who Is Tougher On Us, In Terms Of What We Need To Learn And Do Better, Than The People In The Company Itself. You Can Walk Down These Halls, And They'll Tell You, 'We Need To Do Usability Better, Push This Or That Frontier.'

Measles Will Always Show You If Someone Isn't Doing A Good Job On Vaccinations. Kids Will Start Dying Of Measles.

Measles Will Always Show You If Someone Isn't Doing A Good Job On Vaccinations. Kids Will Start Dying Of Measles.

The Mainstream Is Always Under Attack.

I Believe In Innovation And That The Way You Get Innovation Is You Fund Research And You Learn The Basic Facts.

3d Is A Way Of Organizing Things, Particularly As We're Getting Much More Media Information On The Computer, A Lot More Choices, A Lot More Navigation Than We've Ever Had Before.

The Year I Was Born, 1955, The First Big Disease-eradication Program In The World Was Declared For Malaria. After About A Decade Of Work, They Realized That, At Least In The Tropical Areas, They Did Not Have The Tools To Get It Done.

I Meet People Overseas That Know Five Languages - That The Only Language I'm Comfortable In Is English.

My Wife Thinks She's Better Than Me At Puzzles. I Haven't Given In On That One Yet.

Spam Is Taking E-mail, Which Is A Wonderful Tool, And Exploiting The Idea That It's Very Inexpensive To Send Mail.

Flying Cars Are Not A Very Efficient Way To Move Things From One Point To Another.

Now Everyone Takes It For Granted That You Can Look Up Movie Reviews, Track Locations, And Order Stuff Online. I Wish There Was A Way We Could Take It Away From People For A Day So They Could Remember What It Was Like Without It.

The Best Teacher Is Very Interactive.

For A Highly Motivated Learner, It's Not Like Knowledge Is Secret And Somehow The Internet Made It Not Secret. It Just Made Knowledge Easy To Find. If You're A Motivated Enough Learner, Books Are Pretty Good.

I'm Not A Macroeconomics Person.

In Terms Of Mathematics Textbooks, Why Can't You Have The Scale Of A National Market? Right Now, We Have A Texas Textbook That's Different From A California Textbook That's Different From A Massachusetts Textbook. That's Very Expensive.

You Can Always Think Of Something Like The Xbox 360 As A Super Set-top Box That Can Do Everything The Set-top Box Does, But Then Have The Graphics To Do The Games As Well.

In K-12, Almost Everybody Goes To Local Schools. Universities Are A Bit Different Because Kids Actually Do Pick The University. The Bizarre Thing, Though, Is That The Merit Of University Is Actually How Good The Students Going In Are: The Sat Scores Of The Kids Going In.

The Thing About Hd-dvd That Is Attractive To Microsoft Is That It's Very Pro-consumer In Letting You Copy All Movies Up Onto The Hard Disk.

Apple Has Always Leveraged Technologies That The Pc Industry Has Driven To Critical Mass - The Bus Structures, The Graphics Cards, The Peripherals, The Connection Networks, Things Like That - So They're Kind Of In The Pc Ecosystem And Kind Of Not.

The Difference Between A Stranger Sending You A Message That You Might Be Interested In At A Very Low Volume Level, No Repetition, Just Sending It To Very Few People, And That Being Done As Spam - Those Things Get Close Enough That You Want To Be Careful Never To Filter Out Something That's Legitimate.

The Global Fund Is A Central Player In The Progress Being Achieved On Hiv, Tb And Malaria. It Channels Resources To Help Countries Fight These Diseases. I Believe In Its Impact Because I Have Seen It Firsthand.

The Spread Of Online Information Isn't Just Good For Charities. It's Also Good For Donors. You Can Go To A Site Like Charity Navigator, Which Evaluates Nonprofits On Their Financial Health As Well As The Amount Of Information They Share About Their Work.

Typically, Your Corporate E-mail Account Is Not, Today, That Spam-targeted. It's More The Free E-mail Accounts That Are Spam-targeted.

Like My Friend Warren Buffett, I Feel Particularly Lucky To Do Something Every Day That I Love To Do. He Calls It 'Tap-dancing To Work.'

The Future Of Advertising Is The Internet.