It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
Bill GatesWhen making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
Bill GatesOur flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.
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 Gates