Bill Gates Quotes

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

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.

I am results-oriented.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

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.’

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.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

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

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.