Bill Gates

“The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.”

“For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.”

“My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.”

“We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.”

“I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.”

“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.”

“I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.”

“I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.”

“I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.”

“The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.”

“The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.”

“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”

“3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.”

“You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.”

“The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.”

“Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.”

“Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.”

“Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.”

“I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.”

“Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.”