Bill Gates

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

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

What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much read more

What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - read more

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to read more

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The read more

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.