Bill Gates Quotes And Sayings

In Almost Every Area Of Human Endeavor, The Practice Improves Over Time. That Hasn't Been The Case For Teaching.

I Went To A Public School Through Sixth Grade, And Being Good At Tests Wasn't Cool.

Teaching's Hard! You Need Different Skills: Positive Reinforcement, Keeping Students From Getting Bored, Commanding Their Attention In A Certain Way.

The Gates Foundation Has Learned That Two Questions Can Predict How Much Kids Learn: 'Does Your Teacher Use Class Time Well?' And, 'When You're Confused, Does Your Teacher Help You Get Straightened Out?'

Unemployment Rates Among Americans Who Never Went To College Are About Double That Of Those Who Have A Postsecondary Education.

By 2018, An Estimated 63 Percent Of All New U.s. Jobs Will Require Workers With An Education Beyond High School. For Our Young People To Get Those Jobs, They First Need To Graduate From High School Ready To Start A Postsecondary Education.

Contrary To Popular Belief, I Don't Spend A Whole Lot Of Time Following Soccer. But As I Have Traveled Around The World To Better Understand Global Development And Health, I've Learned That Soccer Is Truly Universal. No Matter Where I Go, That's What Kids Are Playing. That's What People Are Talking About.

China And The U.s. Need Each Other Very Badly. Yes, We Should Argue About Some Things, But It's Not An 'Us Versus Them,' It's An 'Us And Them' Type Scenario.

With Tech Companies, Whoever's The Leader Is Always Questioned, You Know. They Say, 'Is This The End Of Them?' And - There's More - More Times People Think That's The Case Than It Really Is The Case.

The Worst Pandemic In Modern History Was The Spanish Flu Of 1918, Which Killed Tens Of Millions Of People. Today, With How Interconnected The World Is, It Would Spread Faster.

In Energy, You Have To Plan And Do Research Way In Advance, Sometimes Decades In Advance To Get A New System That's Safer, Doesn't Require Us To Go Around The World To Get All Our Oil.

By Improving Health, Empowering Women, Population Growth Comes Down.

My Mom And My Dad Were Both Very Sociable, Meeting Lots Of Interesting People.

On My Desk I Have Three Screens, Synchronized To Form A Single Desktop. I Can Drag Items From One Screen To The Next. Once You Have That Large Display Area, You'll Never Go Back, Because It Has A Direct Impact On Productivity.

Should There Be Cameras Everywhere In Outdoor Streets? My Personal View Is Having Cameras In Inner Cities Is A Very Good Thing. In The Case Of London, Petty Crime Has Gone Down. They Catch Terrorists Because Of It. And If Something Really Bad Happens, Most Of The Time You Can Figure Out Who Did It.

I'm Not Big On To-do Lists. Instead, I Use E-mail And Desktop Folders And My Online Calendar. So When I Walk Up To My Desk, I Can Focus On The E-mails I've Flagged And Check The Folders That Are Monitoring Particular Projects And Particular Blogs.

Money Has Always Been In Politics. And I'm Not Sure You'd Want Money To Be Completely Out Of Politics.

Netscape Was Able To Get The Government Working On Its Behalf.

The Main Thing That's Missing In Energy Is An Incentive To Create Things That Are Zero-co2-emitting And That Have The Right Scale And Reliability Characteristics.

The Ability Of A Successful Company To Add Functionality To Its Product Has Long Been Upheld.

The Future Of Windows Is To Let The Computer See, Listen And Even Learn.

In The Old Generation, If One Kid Bought A Playstation 2 And The Other Kid Bought An Xbox, At His House You Played Playstation, At Your House You Played Xbox. Now That It's Online, All Those Early Buyers Who... You Want To Play With, They've Got Their Reputation Online Of Who They Are And How Good They Are At These Games.

It's Fine To Celebrate Success But It Is More Important To Heed The Lessons Of Failure.

Nuclear Energy, In Terms Of An Overall Safety Record, Is Better Than Other Energy.

People Want To Watch Whatever Video They Want To Watch Whenever They Want To Watch. If You Provision Your Internet Infrastructure Adequately, You Can Do That.

This Social-networking Thing Takes You To Crazy Places.

The Quality Of Research In The U.s. Is Absolutely The Best.

The Bulk Of The Universities Are About Teaching Kids.

The Tablet Is Not Mainstream. Reading Off The Screen Is Not Mainstream.

I'm Never Fully Satisfied With Any Microsoft Product.

Any Version Of Windows Is Going To Have Lots Of Great New Things That People Use And Things That Are Tough.

India Is More Of An Aid Recipient Than A Provider Of Aid.

There Is No Doubt That As An Economy Grows In A Great Way Like India Has, That You Have To Step Back And Change Your Tax Systems, Because You Start To Get More Disparities Of Wealth.

Fortunately For India, It Has Got A Growing Economy. If It Is Doing The Right Things With Taxation And Focusing On The Right Areas For Human Development, It Is Going To Have No Problem, Over A Period Of Time, Taking Care Of Its Own Needs.

The U.s. Couldn't Even Get Rid Of Saddam Hussein. And We All Know That The Eu Is Just A Passing Fad. They'll Be Killing Each Other Again In Less Than A Year. I'm Sick To Death Of All These Fascist Lawsuits.

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.

I've Always Been Amazed By Da Vinci, Because He Worked Out Science On His Own. He Would Work By Drawing Things And Writing Down His Ideas. Of Course, He Designed All Sorts Of Flying Machines Way Before You Could Actually Build Something Like That.

The Nuclear Industry Has This Amazing Record, Even Equipment From Generations One And Two. But Nuclear Mishaps Tend To Come In These Big Events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, And Now Fukushima - So It's More Visible.

Windows Is Probably The Most Important Product In The Entire Pc Industry. Everything We Do In Terms Of Supporting Touch, New Hardware, Accessibility Has Incredible Impact.

The Protestor I Think Will Speak Up For The World's Poorest.

People Are Going To Buy Cheap Fertilizer So They Can Grow Enough Crops To Feed Themselves, Which Will Be Increasingly Difficult With Climate Change.

You're Never Going To Get The Amount Of Co2 Emitted To Go Down Unless You Deal With The One Magic Metric, Which Is Co2 Per Kilowatt-hour.

The Most Interesting Biofuel Efforts Avoid Using Land That's Expensive And Has High Opportunity Costs. They Do This By Getting Onto Other Types Of Land, Or Taking Advantage Of Byproducts That Aren't Used In The Food Chain Today, Or By Intercropping.

Globalization Has Made Copper And Other Minerals More Valuable, And Ghana And Kenya Have Recently Discovered Mineral Resources.

The Advance Of Technology Is Based On Making It Fit In So That You Don't Really Even Notice It, So It's Part Of Everyday Life.

Corruption Is One Of The Most Common Reasons I Hear In Views That Criticize Aid.

The Misconception That Aid Falls Straight Into The Hands Of Dictators Largely Stems From The Cold War Era.

If You're Low-income In The United States, You Have A Higher Chance Of Going To Jail Than You Do Of Getting A Four-year Degree. And That Doesn't Seem Entirely Fair.

Helping Convene Global Stakeholders To Establish A Set Of Measurable, Actionable And Consensus-built Goals Focused On Extreme Poverty Is Invaluable.

The Center For Disease Control Started Out As The Malaria War Control Board Based In Atlanta. Partly Because The Head Of Coke Had Some People Out To His Plantation, And They Got Infected With Malaria, And Partly 'Cause All The Military Recruits Were Coming Down And Having A Higher Fatality Rate From Malaria While Training Than In The Field.