Bill Gates World Quotations

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

We're changing the world with technology.

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equityWe are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

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.

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

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

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

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.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

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

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

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

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life.

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.