We will never make a 32-bit operating system. Bill Gates More Quotes by Bill Gates More Quotes From Bill Gates There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then you would burn that. That's called "breeding" in a fast reactor. That is bad because plutonium is nuclear weapons material. It's messy. The processing you have to get through is not only environmentally difficultly, it's extremely expensive. Bill Gates plutonium different long 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. Bill Gates technology imagination people here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale. Bill Gates growing government europe With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country. Bill Gates educational country children Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children. Bill Gates vaccines special children People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more. Bill Gates usa running people Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step. Bill Gates steps weather country We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them. Bill Gates vaccines believe children In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's. Bill Gates mistake feels way My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier. Bill Gates summer average thinking If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. Bill Gates valleys hell want If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them. Bill Gates energy want two In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Bill Gates car would-be people I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. Bill Gates sixth-grade tests school Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. Bill Gates zero average country I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. Bill Gates investing political success Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites. Bill Gates design cutting kids The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate. Bill Gates differences inspirational people I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets. Bill Gates elderly cutting thinking If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree. Bill Gates low-income jail years
