Quotes from Bill Gates

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Leaders are those who empower others.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.