Bill Gates Quotes About Innovation

Quotes about: Innovation

• Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

  Bill Gates

  Science, Technology, Innovation

• I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Believe, Innovation

• Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Thinking, Political

  Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.

• Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Medicine, Political

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

• These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Technology, Opportunity

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007), Bill Gates (2008). “Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008”

• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Commitment, Organization

• Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Play, Innovation

• Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

  Bill Gates

  Food, Innovation, Environment

• I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Keys, Innovation

• The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Lying, Discovery

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

• But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Innovation, Environmental

• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

• Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Two, Innovation

• Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Loyal Customers

• People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Thinking, People

• We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."

  Bill Gates

  Yes You Can, Innovation, Saying Yes

• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Greed

• Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

  Bill Gates

  Games, Innovation, Energy

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, People, Innovation

  "Research and development for startups - live discussion" by Matthew Caines, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2014.

• We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."

  Bill Gates

  Commitment, Innovation, Energy

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

• There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

  Bill Gates

  Competition, Innovation, Microsoft

• The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

  Bill Gates

  Long, Innovation, Progress

  "Charting a Course to End Malaria" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

• I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

• During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

  Bill Gates

  Dark, Past, Years

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