Bill Gates : (13) " Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod. " - Bill Gates " I don’t generally read a lot of fiction. " - Bill Gates " Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. " - Bill Gates " Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. " - Bill Gates " Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions. " - Bill Gates " The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. " - Bill Gates " The future of advertising is the Internet. " - Bill Gates " There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively. " - Bill Gates " In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil. " - Bill Gates " The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. " - Bill Gates