Bill Gates

The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

I'm not a demon. The point is I'm trying to make the world a better place.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making the money themselves.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I'm not in politics, but I do think it's fascinating how politics works.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

If I'd had some idea of the scope of the problem, I'd have been a philosophy major.

The Internet? We are not interested in it.