Quotes

“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.” Bill Gates

“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.” Bill Gates

“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.” Bill Gates

“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.” Bill Gates

“We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.” Bill Gates

“We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.” Bill Gates

“When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.” Bill Gates

“When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.” Bill Gates

“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.” Bill Gates

“Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.” Bill Gates

“I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.” Bill Gates

“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.” Bill Gates

“I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.” Bill Gates

“Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.” Bill Gates

“Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.” Bill Gates

“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.” Bill Gates

“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.” Bill Gates

“The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.” Bill Gates

“The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.” Bill Gates

“There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.” Bill Gates

“Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.” Bill Gates

“Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.” Bill Gates

“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.” Bill Gates

“Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.” Bill Gates

“Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.” Bill Gates

“Forgotten is forgiven.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald