List Of Bill Gates Quotes

The Us Spends More On Energy R&d Than All Other Countries Put Together, And I Personally Consider It Quite Inadequate.

We're Very Enthused About The Idea That In The Third Trimester We Actually Give The Mother A Vaccine And Her Antibodies, The Protective Things That The Immune System Makes, Actually Pass Through To The Baby, Both When The Baby Is Born, And Through The Mother's Milk. Because The Baby's Immune System Is Actually Not Very Strong For That First Few Months, Using The Mother's Immune System To Do This - It's A Very Exciting Idea And Something That We're Investing Heavily In.

In Fact, That's Where My Vision Of The Coming Digital Opportunity Is Somewhat Different From Other People's. I Divide It Into Three Parts. One Is The Office. That's The One I'm Most Excited About And Is The Most Concrete.

You Can Go Overboard In How Quickly You Might Expect New Technologies To Transform People's Lives. But I Very Much Believe The Way Software Is Used, The Way Information Gets Distributed, Will Be Dramatically Different Within 10 Years. There Is Fire To Go With All This Smoke.

We Need To Cooperate Globally On Epidemic Preparedness And Prevention In The Same Way We Are Cooperating Globally To Stop People From Getting Nuclear Weapons.

We're Creating This Alliance, Gavi, That Has Helped Buy The Vaccines That Were In The Rich World But Not Getting To The Poor Kids, Getting A Very Cheap Price And Figuring Out The Cold Chain, Getting The Delivery Right, And Then Funding Research For New Vaccines. A Lot Of Them Are Coming Along. We've Got A Meningitis Vaccine Out, Got That Through Large Parts Of Africa. That Has Been A Huge Success.

Take Agriculture, Where We Haven't Done Much, Or Sanitation; Saying, "okay, We Will Be Able To Make A Really Huge Effort There." It Really Energized The Foundation And Half Of What We've Gotten Done In This Last Decade Is Because Warren [buffett] Trusted Us.

It Was Really Phenomenal [warren Buffett Donation]. It Grew Out Of The Friendship That We Had And The Fact That His Plan To Have His Wife Run The Foundation And Give Things Away Changed When She Tragically Died.

Even For The Diseases We Don't Focus On, Cancer, Heart Disease, You're Going To Be Way Better Off Being Sick 10 Years From Now Than Any Time In The Past.

Even In Some Of Our Vaccine Areas, Like An Aids Vaccine, Things Have Taken Longer Than We Expected, But We Have The Pipeline Of Tools. The Biological Information That We Have That Gives Us Insights Is Fantastic.

Your Most Unhappy Customers Are Your Greatest Source Of Learning.