Quotes from 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.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

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

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.