"I know that historically our foundation has..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.”

“Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.”

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

“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”

“If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”

“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”

“If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”