#in

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. ↗

— Bill Gates

#being #bit #certainly #countries #developed

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. ↗

— Bill Gates

#digital #fantastic #lightweight #over #reading

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. ↗

— Bill Gates

#fine #i #know #me #never

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. ↗

— Bill Gates

#bit #cut #games #i #i think

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. ↗

— Bill Gates

#agriculture #competing #energy #energy production #first-class

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. ↗

— Bill Gates

#because #buying #card #comes #credit

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. ↗

— Bill Gates

#helping #i #i think #idea #important

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#anything #because #deeply #every #except

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. ↗

— Bill Gates

#between #bureaucrat #draw #line #magic

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. ↗

— Bill Gates

#dependent #energy #granted #house #industry