Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.
Bill GatesTwo out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Bill GatesThe media covers whatโs new โ and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where itโs easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, itโs difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. Itโs hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we donโt know how to help. And so we look away.
Bill GatesIf people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
Bill GatesAt some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
Bill Gates