Bill Gates Needs Quotations

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.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

Today we are using passwords, and they won't cut it. We need to move to multifunction authentication. A lot of that will be using a smart-card approach that needs to be built down into the system.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

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

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

It shouldn't be the case that it's not equal ... It's a good field for everybody. Absolutely, a ton needs to be done.