If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. — 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