With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is… — 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
