The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. – Bill Gates
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. – Bill Gates
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. – Bill Gates
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. – Bill Gates
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. – Bill Gates
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria. – Bill Gates
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. – Bill Gates
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit. – Bill Gates
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?’ – Bill Gates
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. – Bill Gates
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. – Bill Gates
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. – Bill Gates
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral. – Bill Gates
By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited… The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. – Bill Gates
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. – Bill Gates
It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit. – Bill Gates
I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English. – Bill Gates
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. – Bill Gates
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. – Bill Gates
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. – Bill Gates
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past. – Bill Gates
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different. – Bill Gates