[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
Bill GatesComputers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
Bill GatesSo not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.
Bill GatesMicrosoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
Bill GatesChina is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
Bill GatesWe have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.
Bill Gates