Quotes from Bill Gates

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

I get more spam than anyone I know.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

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.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.