The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
