Bill Gates Quotes
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
Gates, Bill. Interview by Jeff Goodell. Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2014.
This was his last House debate and whereas almost all scientists had agreed that climate change was a serious challenge to the nation, an ideologically driven majority of his Republican Party denied that that there was any climate change that was different from the usual vicissitudes of nature, he tried to persuade his anti-scientific, conservative colleagues to face reality.
William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Gates is also co-founder and chairman of TerraPower that is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants, in an effort to tackle climate change.