Bill Gates
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.Collection: Great
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.Collection: Religion
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.Collection: Amazing
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.Collection: Life
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.Collection: Technology
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.Collection: Thanksgiving
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.Collection: Home
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Collection: Success
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Education
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.Collection: Good
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.Collection: Success
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.Collection: Positive
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.Collection: Environmental
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.Collection: Government
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.Collection: Science
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: History
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.Collection: Money
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!Collection: Business
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.Collection: Chance
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.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Education
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'Collection: Science
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Technology
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.Collection: Computers
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.Collection: Computers
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.Collection: Dreams
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.Collection: Food
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.Collection: Amazing
I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.Collection: Relationship
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.Collection: Food
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.Collection: Future
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.Collection: Amazing
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.Collection: Government
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.Collection: Funny
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.Collection: Business
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Business
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?Collection: Health
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Life
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.Collection: Technology
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.Collection: Success
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.Collection: Health
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.Collection: Christmas
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Amazing