Quotes from Bill Gates

Today, the issue isn't quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I spend a lot of time reading.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bi...es like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.