"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
We always have to be serious about public health in a global sense and — Bill Gates
"We always have to be serious about public health in a global sense and surveillance for "the next one", because we dont know where it will emerge."

William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.
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View all →"Im a big believer that as much as possible, and theres obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing."
"Youve got to be willing to read other peoples code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. Youve got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what youre doing wrong..."
"Were no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, youll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing."
"Deploying today’s renewables and improving transmission couldn’t be more important. . . . Unless we use large amounts of nuclear energy . . . every path to zero in the United States will require us to install as much wind and solar power as we can build and find room for. . . . [M]ost countries aren’t as lucky as the United States when it comes to solar and wind resources. . . . That’s why, even as we deploy, deploy, deploy solar and wind, the world is going to need some new clean electricity inventions too."
"You can make sure wind turbines can deal with the cold"