We will never make a 32-bit operating system. Bill Gates More Quotes by Bill Gates More Quotes From Bill Gates In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. Bill Gates zero business fall Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. Bill Gates skills writing people My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. Bill Gates given wife thinking In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. Bill Gates low-income lows country Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism. Bill Gates capitalism believe Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries. Bill Gates real museums art Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter. Bill Gates land people years Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large. Bill Gates availability requirements wind In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid. Bill Gates religious god thinking Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. Bill Gates innovation environment food How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era. Bill Gates aids-epidemic epidemics world The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. Bill Gates track design years There's life and death in every email. Bill Gates email life-and-death I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR. Bill Gates foundation administration bills The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities. Bill Gates government business ideas If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down. Bill Gates cost energy example There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. Bill Gates inspirational funny people Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. Bill Gates responsibility giving way The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device. Bill Gates vision should-have people This antitrust thing will blow over. Bill Gates antitrust foresight blow
