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
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Lord ByronRead
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Good writing is lean and confident.
William ZinsserRead
If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road.
Roy Peter ClarkRead
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
John GreenRead
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.
Thomas HuxleyRead