The future of advertising is the Internet.
— Bill Gates
Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.
The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
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.
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
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.
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
I'm a geek.
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.
When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
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.
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
