Bill Gates

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. ”

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. ”

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides. ”

I spend a lot of time reading. ”

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ”

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. ”

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. ”

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. ”

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. ”

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL. ”