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William Henry Gates III (born 28 October 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is most famous as the co-founder of Microsoft, and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The climate is not the end of the planet. So the planet is going to be fine
You can make sure wind turbines can deal with the cold
Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand.
Regarding Bill And Melinda Gates' Polio Efforts (2009)
As a Consumer . . . Sign up for a green pricing program with your electric utility. . . . Reduce your home's emissions. . . . Buy an electric vehicle. . . . Try a plant-based burger.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
The Road Ahead (1995)
We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number — before our doom comes.
Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (1997)
… there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with … nobody can ever improve the software.
We always have to be serious about public health in a global sense and surveillance for "the next one", because we don't know where it will emerge.
Humans will no longer be needed for most things.
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
"Deploying today’s renewables and improving transmission couldn’t be more important." - From How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021). (This photo shows solar panels, wind turbines, and components of the electrical grid that carry the electricity generated to consumers.)
I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
To get [the breakthroughs on the "Technologies needed" list] ready soon enough to make a difference, governments need to . . . [q]uintuple clean energy and climate-related R&D over the next decade. . . .
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.
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.... The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.
If you eventually get a society where you only have to work three days a week, that’s probably OK. If you free up human labor, you can help elder people better, have smaller class sizes – you know, the demand for labor to do good things is still there. And then if you ever get beyond that, you have a lot of leisure time and you’ll have to figure out what to do with it.
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.
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