Bill Gates

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.