Bill Gates Quotes

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

Freedom can occur only through education.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

We need to engage rather than educate people.

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Literacy has fueled most of the freedom movements in the last centuries.

The social use of Slack does drive awareness - it's a good thing for us.

Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.

I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge.

Mobile devices have given us greater freedom and flexibility than ever before, while social platforms help us collaborate more effectively.

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret