Bill Gates

In fact, batteries haven’t improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I’m invested in a lot of battery companies – and there’s a lot that exists I’m not in. They’re all having a tough time achieving it.

Bill Gates

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Bill Gates

In software you can’t really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what’s going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you’d be more likely to slow things down.

Bill Gates

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

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That’s doable.

Bill Gates

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Bill Gates

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved.

Bill Gates

It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

Bill Gates

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they’ve had good educational institutions, and they’ve had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

Bill Gates

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’

Bill Gates