Sir Bill Gates is an American business head honcho, programming designer, financial backer, creator, and giver. He is a prime supporter of Microsoft Corporation, alongside his late beloved companion Paul Allen. During his profession at Microsoft, Gates stood firm on the footings of administrator, (CEO), president and boss programming engineer, while likewise being the biggest individual investor until May 2014] He is viewed as one of the most mind-blowing known business people of the microcomputer unrest of the 1970s and 1980s.
βBill Gates All Quotes and Sayingsβ
βI choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.β
βIf you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.β
βYour most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.β
βMost people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.β
βSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.β
βI really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.β
βAs we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.β
βDNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.β
βOur success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.β
βIt’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.β
βThe vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about whatβs going on so they can do a lot more than theyβve done in the past.β
βPower comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.β
βI believe that if you show people the problems and you show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Actβ
βSome people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.β
βTechnology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and Motivating them, the teacher is the most important.β
βIf you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.β
βLike almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it werenβt so exciting.β
βThe cruel injustice is that even though the worldβs poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, theyβre going to suffer the most from it.β
βWell, I went for a ride but I didn’t find my carβ
βThis is greatβ
βI studied everything but never topped…But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”- Bill Gatesβ
βBusiness is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.β
βIn this business, by the time you realize you are in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless youβre running scared all the time, you’re gone.β
βIn other words, by mid-century, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly.β
βWhatever other resources you may have, you can always use your voice and your vote to effect change.β
βIf you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and then imagine spreading the pain out over a much longer period of time.β
βIn my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.”
βThe world uses more than 4 billion Gallons every day. When youβre using any product at that kind of volume, you canβt simply stop overnight.β
βBut I hope youβll spend more time and energy supporting whatever youβre in favor of than opposing whatever youβre against.β
βThere are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51 billion. The other is zero. Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year.β
βMost people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day – and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.β
βHow many people will be killed by COVID-19 versus by climate change?β
βIt may sound old-fashioned, but letters and phone calls to your elected Officials can have a real impact.ββBut we canβt solve a problem like climate change without an honest accounting of how much we need to do and what obstacles we need to overcome.β
βUnless we move fast toward zero, bad things (and probably many of them) will happen well within most peopleβs lifetime, and very bad things will happen within a generation.β
βIt may sound as if Iβm cherry-pickingβ
βDefine the precise chemical composition of the concrete you can use.β
βThatβs nearly 600 pounds for every person in the country. And weβre not even the biggest consumers of the stuffβthat would be China, which installed more concrete in the first 16 years of the 21st century than the United States did in the entire 20th century!β
βIn particular, Green Premiums are a fantastic lens for making decisions.β
βThe problem of over generation in the summer and under generation in the winter.β
βThe Gates Foundationβs whole approach to saving lives is based on the idea that we need to be pushing innovation for the poor while also increasing demand for it.β
βIβm glad Iβve invested all that time learning about electricity. For one thing, it was a great father-son activity. (Seriously.)β
βThe vision is about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the pastβ
βThe world needs to provide more energy so the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases.β
βmy full-time job is working with my wife, Melinda,β
βI didnβt think it was fair for anyone to tell Indians that their children couldnβt have lights to study by, or that thousands of Indians should die in heat waves because installing air conditioners is bad for the environment.β
βBesides, making electricity accounts for only 27 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. Even if we had a huge breakthrough in batteries, we would still need to get rid of the other 73 percent.β
βConsider that the first Model T that rolled off Henry Fordβs production line in 1908 got no better than 21 miles to the gallon. As I write this, the top hybrid on the market gets 58 miles to the gallon. In more than a century, fuel economy has improved by less than a factor of three.β
βBut giving people more information can help them make better choices.β
βBecause every bit of carbon we put into the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse effect. There’s no getting around physics.β
βBecause every bit of carbon we put into the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse effect. There’s no getting around physics.β
βBut Germany produced about 10 times more solar in June 2018 than it did in December 2018.β
βHow much power does it take? The World 5,000 gig watts The United States 1,000 gig watts Mid-size city 1 gig watt Small town 1 megawatt Average American house 1 kilowattβ
βTip: Whenever you hear βkilowatt,β think βhouse.β βGig watt,β think βcity.β A hundred or more gig watts think βbig country.β
βY’all feel like playing Mine craft on the Xbox 360?β
βThe typical Kenyan produces 55 times less carbon dioxide than an American, and rural farmers like the Tales produce even less.β
βNatural gas followed a similar trajectory. In 1900, it accounted for 1 percent of the worldβs energy. It took seventy years to reach 20 percent. Nuclear fission went faster, going from 0 to 10 percent in 27 years.β
βThis chart shows how much various energy sources grew over the course of 60 years, starting from the time they were introduced. Between 1840 and 1900, coal went from 5 percent of the worldβs energy supply to nearly 50 percent. But in the 60 years from 1930 to 1990, natural gas reached just 20 percent. In short, energy transitions take a long time.β
βWhy do energy transitions take so long, anyway? Becauseβ¦ Coal plants are not like computer chips.β
β* The power density of solar could theoretically reach 100 watts per square meter, though no one has accomplished this yet.β
βIn Indonesia, on the other hand, forests are being cut down to make way for palm trees, which provide the palm oil youβll find in everything from movie-theater popcorn to shampoo. Itβs one of the main reasons why the country is the worldβs fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.β
βIf you want to do business with us, youβll have to take climate change seriously.β
βThe average retail price for a gallon of jet fuel in the United States over the past few years is $2.22. Advanced biofuels for jets, to the extent theyβre available, cost on average $5.35 per gallon. The Green Premium for zero-carbon fuel, then, is the difference between these two prices, which is $3.13.β
βIf we get a breakthrough in cheap hydrogen, for example, we might not need to worry as much about getting a magic battery.β
βIβm also a technophile. Show me a problem, and Iβll look for technology to Fix it.β
βIn particular, Green Premiums are a fantastic lens for making decisions. They help us put our time, attention, and money to their best use. Looking at all the different premiums, we can decide which zero-carbon solutions we should deploy now and where we should pursue breakthroughs because the clean alternatives arenβt cheap enough. They help us answer questions like these:β
βWe need to channel the worldβs passion and its scientific IQ into deploying the clean energy solutions we have now, and inventing new ones, so we stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.β
βCGIAR is the worldβs largest agricultural research group: In short, it helps create better plants and better animal genetics.β
βI watched Earthβs Changing Climate, a series of fantastic video lectures by Professor Richard Wolfsan available through the Great Courses series. I read Weather for Dummies, still one of the best books on weather that Iβve found. One thingβ
βTip: Keep the Green Premiums in mind and ask whether theyβre low enough for middle-income countries to pay.β
βA hotter climate means there will be more frequent and destructive wildfires.β
βItβs easy to feel powerless in the face of a problem as big as climate change. But youβre not powerless.β
βIt wasnβt enough to deliver cheap, reliable energy for the poor. It also had to be clean.β
βSeawater expands when it gets warmer.β
βSeas getting warmer, theyβre also bifurcatingβdeveloping some places where the water has more oxygen and others where it has less oxygen.β
βExtra heat wonβt be good for the animals we eat and get milk from; it will make them less productive and more prone to dying young, which in turn will make meat, eggs, and dairy more expensive.β
βA 2-degree rise wouldnβt simply be 33 percent worse than 1.5; it could be 100 percent worse. Twice as many people would have trouble getting clean water. Corn production in the tropics would go down twice as much.β
βTechnology is only one reason that the energy industry canβt change as quickly as the computer industry. Thereβs also size. The energy industry is simply enormousβat around $5 trillion a year, one of the biggest businesses on the planet. Anything that big and complex will resist change.β
βWeβve already raised the temperature at least 1 degree Celsius since preindustrial times, and if we donβt reduce emissions, weβll probably have between 1.5 and 3 degrees Celsius of warming by mid-century, and between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.β
βThe countries that build great zero-carbon companies and industries will be the ones that lead the global economy in the coming decades.β
βChina makes a lot of cement. The country has already produced more in the 21st century than the United States did in the entire 20th century. (U.S. Geological Survey)β
βBy mid-century, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly.β
βI love the fact that one of historyβs greatest heroes had a job titleβagronomistβthat most of us have never even heard of.β
βAnd, because greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere for so long, the planet will stay warm for a long time even after we get to zero.β
βInstead, in all likelihood, in a zero-carbon future we will still be producing some emissions, but weβll have ways to remove the carbon they emit.β
βItβs hard to think of a better response to a miserable 2020 than spending the next ten years dedicating ourselves to this ambitious goal.β
βIn other words, βgetting to zero βYour most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.β
βSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.β
βIts fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.β
ββLife is not fair; get used to itβ.
βThe Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.β
βAs we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Often you have to rely on intuition. Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is Cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do
.ββIf you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenureβ.
βSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.β
βIf you are born poor it’s not your mistake. β
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