Bill Gates Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

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

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Vaccines, People

• I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Toppers, Today

• Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

  Bill Gates

  World, Today, Fantastic

  Source: thesource.com

• The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

  Bill Gates

  People, Pandemics, World

• Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

• Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

  Bill Gates

  Miracle, Nuclear, Today

• Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

  Bill Gates

  Agility, Today

• Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

  Bill Gates

  Care, May, Today

• The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Two, Years

• As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Caring, Two

  "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

• When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.

  Bill Gates

  Kings, Looks, Today

• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

  Bill Gates

  Gratitude, Kings, Food

• So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

  Bill Gates

  Mother, Children, Lying

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

• Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Investing, Today

• Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

  Bill Gates

  Mail, Today, Spam

• In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.

  Bill Gates

  People, Important, Today

  Source: thesource.com

• If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, Ideas, People

  Challenges and Strategy Memo, May 16, 1991.

• America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

  Bill Gates

  School, Mean, America

• The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

  Bill Gates

  Two, Burning, Neutrons

• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Epidemics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

  Bill Gates

  House, Energy, Today

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

• Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Special

  Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

• If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

  Bill Gates

  Past, People, Awful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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