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" Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. "
Bill Gates
Want
People
See
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" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "
Bill Gates
Compassion
Our
Human
" Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. "
Bill Gates
Creative
Computers
Problems
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Work
Financial
Good
" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "
Bill Gates
Business
I Believe
Investment
" Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime. "
Bill Gates
More
Course
Lifetime
" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "
Bill Gates
Back
You
Three
" The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. "
Bill Gates
Business
Good
World
" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "
Bill Gates
Get
Government
Netscape
" I'm a geek. "
Bill Gates
Geek
" There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. "
Bill Gates
People
Capitalism
Like
" We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. "
Bill Gates
Digital
Transition
Strategy
" Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. "
Bill Gates
Young Age
Young
World
" Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. "
Bill Gates
Dying
Good
You
" 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
World
History
Worst
" I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. "
Bill Gates
People
You
Meet
" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
Bill Gates
Truth
Believe
Expectations
" The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. "
Bill Gates
Truth
Think
Software
" Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. "
Bill Gates
Weather
Sports
Business
" The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics. "
Bill Gates
Missing
Energy
Right
" Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer. "
Bill Gates
Surface
Computer
Windows
" 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
Create
Today
Need
" Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. "
Bill Gates
Software
Artistry
Engineering
" In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. "
Bill Gates
Now
California
Texas
" I think there will be PCs at every price point. "
Bill Gates
Point
Will
I Think
" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "
Bill Gates
Low
People
Time
" No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. "
Bill Gates
Decide
Me
Microsoft
" The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. "
Bill Gates
Work
Year
World
" The future of advertising is the Internet. "
Bill Gates
Future
Internet
Advertising
" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "
Bill Gates
Go
Back
High
" It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down. "
Bill Gates
Before
Down
Things