Quotes By Bill Gates

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

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.

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.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

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?'

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

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.

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.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.