Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
Bill GatesRead
Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Soccer transcends cultures and brings people together regardless of their background.
In this quote, Bill Gates expresses the idea that soccer is a common thread that connects people across the globe, reflecting its universality and the role it plays in communication and community, especially among children. He emphasizes how, during his travels, he has found that soccer is not just a sport but a cultural phenomenon that unites people irrespective of their diverse lives and circumstances.
Themes
SoccerUniversalConnectionGlobalChildren
In practice
Example use cases
During a charity event focused on childhood development, one might say, 'As Bill Gates pointed out, soccer is a universal language that brings children together.'
More from Bill Gates
All quotes →The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill GatesRead
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
Bill GatesRead
About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Bill GatesRead
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 GatesRead
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
Bill GatesRead
Similar quotes
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.
J. K. RowlingRead
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car."
George CarlinRead
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
Margaret AtwoodRead
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.
Clarence DarrowRead
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
David McculloughRead
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
Clint EastwoodRead