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" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "
Bill Gates
Incredible
AIDS
Stigma
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" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
Bill Gates
Way
Money
Government
" Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.' "
Bill Gates
Day
Every Day
Feel
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Friday
Thanksgiving
Monday
" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "
Bill Gates
You
Information
Rules
" Newspaper readership is still growing in India. "
Bill Gates
Newspaper
India
Growing
" I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems. "
Bill Gates
Formula
Problems
World
" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "
Bill Gates
Me
Wife
Thinks
" Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. "
Bill Gates
Digital
Been
Move
" Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. "
Bill Gates
Apple
Search
Job
" Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. "
Bill Gates
Possible
Earth
Out
" Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. "
Bill Gates
End
Luck
People
" We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. "
Bill Gates
Who
Students
Teach
" The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. "
Bill Gates
Work
Year
World
" It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. "
Bill Gates
Change
Disappear
Nobody
" This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places. "
Bill Gates
You
Crazy
Places
" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "
Bill Gates
Name
Immigrants
Government
" In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. "
Bill Gates
Late
Business
Yourself
" Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. "
Bill Gates
Highly
Small
Curious
" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "
Bill Gates
Government
Be Different
Me
" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "
Bill Gates
Education
People
School
" People everywhere love Windows. "
Bill Gates
Windows
People
Love
" Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. "
Bill Gates
Me
Popular
Us
" Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' "
Bill Gates
Most
Power
Powerful
" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
Bill Gates
Truth
Believe
Expectations
" This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing. "
Bill Gates
Amazing
Computer
Library
" The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. "
Bill Gates
Know
Death
Again
" Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. "
Bill Gates
Few
Innovation
Improving
" Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems. "
Bill Gates
Like
See
Problems
" When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. "
Bill Gates
Parents
Growing Up
Volunteer
" In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. "
Bill Gates
Now
California
Texas