Bill Gates

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic read more

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify read more

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much read more

What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The read more

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.