Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these br….

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep..

We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them..

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out..

[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to t….

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day..

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

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad ne….

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slig….

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows….

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik….

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take i….

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it..

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 year….

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about….

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 lev….

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money..

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselv….

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of la….

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have..