history Quotes

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

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... ...

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was... ...

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in... ...