Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates IIIis an American business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 October 1955
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
Banking is necessary - banks are not.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.
I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.