Bill Gates

Life is not fair get used to used to it

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

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

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.