Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ”

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. ”

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. ”

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

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. ”

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day. ”

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. ”

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life. ”

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ”

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have. ”