I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.
— Bill Gates
I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
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.
I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
The microprocessor is a miracle.
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
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.
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
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.
AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.
It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
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.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
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.
If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
