Bill Gates Problem Quotations

We need highly educated leaders, skilled in research and analysis, who will undertake a creative approach to defining and solving problems so that we can address the injustices and inequities around our world. On graduation from Cambridge, Gates Scholars are in an ideal position to bring new vision and apply their learning to the benefit of society at large.

The one top problem we've got in hardware advances is getting everybody connected at high speeds...Most people even five years from now will probably still be connected through the phone line,

I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness -- to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn't solve on their own, ... All Things Considered.

With our foundation, with others ... we're getting the brightest scientists to come and work on these problems,

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

I'm not, you know, particularly good at this. Maybe I'll never be good at it. But to walk around to each patient and ask, you know, what is your problem? And be respectful of, you know, their desire for privacy. But I think it is very important. If people got out like that, you know these problems would get addressed.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.