Bill Gates
The best teacher is very interactive.Collection: Teacher
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Health
My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.Collection: Mom
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.Collection: Sports
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.Collection: Age
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.Collection: Teacher
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.Collection: Health
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.Collection: Intelligence
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.Collection: Business
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.Collection: Technology
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.Collection: Food
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.Collection: Truth
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.Collection: Imagination
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.Collection: Home
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Mom
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.Collection: Funny
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.Collection: Business
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.Collection: Intelligence
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.Collection: Health
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.Collection: Money
The future of advertising is the Internet.Collection: Future
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.Collection: Fear
Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.Collection: Car
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.Collection: Change
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.Collection: Medical
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.Collection: Education
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.Collection: Money
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.Collection: Technology
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Dad
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.Collection: Technology
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Architecture
People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.Collection: Legal
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.Collection: Positive
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.Collection: Strength
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
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.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.