Quotes from Bill Gates

Extra heat won't be good for the animals we eat and get milk from; it will make them less productive and more prone to dying young, which in turn will make meat, eggs, and dairy more expensive.

seas getting warmer, they're also bifurcating—developing some places where the water has more oxygen and others where it has less oxygen.

Technology is only one reason that the energy industry can't change as quickly as the computer industry. There's also size. The energy industry is simply enormous—at around $5 trillion a year, one of the biggest businesses on the planet. Anything that big and complex will resist change.

In other words, "getting to zero

Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year.

With the price of today's batteries, EV owners save money only if gas costs more than around $3 per gallon.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.