Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
Bill GatesI meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Bill GatesPeople who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.
Bill GatesIn the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.
Bill Gates