"There's always a tricky issue when you..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.”

“I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.”

“The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.”

“It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.”

“Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.”

“Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.”

“The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.”

“I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.”

“Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.”