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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 40

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The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

Should Have, Three, Green

"Bill Gates, time traveler". www.politico.com.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

Xbox, Kids, Games

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?'

Teacher, Confused, Kids

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.

Kind, Granted, Paint

"THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.

Simple, Government, Organization

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Teaching, Kids, Self Confidence

Source: www.geekwire.com

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

Player, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

Philosophy, Ideas, Individual

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.

Views, Cities, Gone

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

Archives, Microsoft, Done

"LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Bill Gates : A Seasoned Boy Wonder Still Searching for the Cutting Edge". Interview with Nancy Yoshihara, articles.latimes.com. December 10, 1995.

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.

Government, Ideas, Information

"The day Bill Gates didn't call me a communist". Interview with Philip Elmer-DeWitt, David S. Jackson, fortune.com. June 28, 2008.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

Add, Easier, Clicks

"Q&A with Bill Gates: Extended version". Interview with Todd Bishop, blog.seattlepi.com. January 29, 2007.

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

Justice, United States, Rich

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

Math, Class, Textbooks

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Energy, Use, Want

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Motivational, Success, Leadership

"A Conversation with Bill Gates: Making a Healthier World for Children and Future Generations". "Now" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 9, 2003.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Generations, Firsts, Fortune

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

Microsoft, Bugs, Products

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

Encouragement, Jobs, People

"One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

Success, Leadership, Country

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Success, Leadership, Responsibility

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Success, Philanthropy, Should

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

Stupid, People, Giving

"Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

Money, Business, Linux

"How Microsoft conquered China" by David Kirkpatrick, archive.fortune.com. July 17, 2007.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

Quality, Want, Lows

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