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- Bill Gates, Melinda Gates: Why Giving Away Our Wealth Has Been The Most Satisfying Thing We've Done
Link to TED video: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've doneIn 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates—then engaged—took a walk on a beach in Zanzibar, and made a bold decision on how they would make...
- Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview
Link to: Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds $76 billion, but he may also be the most optimistic. In his view, the world is a giant operating system that just...
- Gates Foundation 2014 Annual Letter
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in...
- Bill Gates: My Plan To Fix The World's Biggest Problems
We can learn a lot about improving the 21st-century world from an icon of the industrial era: the steam engine. Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book "The Most Powerful Idea in the World." Among the...
- Gates Foundation: 2010 Annual Letter From Bill Gates
This is my second annual letter. The focus of this year’s letter is innovation and how it can make the difference between a bleak future and a bright one. 2009 was the first year my full-time work was as co-chair of the foundation, along with Melinda...
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Bill Gates: We cannot stand still on polio, but we can push ahead and end it
At Microsoft I learned that innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. Today, I see that same excitement and promise in my work in philanthropy.
Thanks to the accelerating pace of innovation, we are making new discoveries to drive progress against poverty, hunger, and disease.
Consider the decline in childhood deaths. In 1955, the year I was born, more than 20 million children under the age of five died. In 2011, that number was 6.9 million.
One of the key reasons behind that amazing progress is the power of immunisation. Vaccines work to save lives and protect children for a lifetime.
Vaccines have also brought us to the threshold of eradicating polio. In 1988 when the world set the goal of eradication, 350,000 children in 125 countries were paralysed by this horrible disease every year. Last year, there were fewer than 250 cases of polio worldwide.
- Bill Gates, Melinda Gates: Why Giving Away Our Wealth Has Been The Most Satisfying Thing We've Done
Link to TED video: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've doneIn 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates—then engaged—took a walk on a beach in Zanzibar, and made a bold decision on how they would make...
- Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview
Link to: Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds $76 billion, but he may also be the most optimistic. In his view, the world is a giant operating system that just...
- Gates Foundation 2014 Annual Letter
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in...
- Bill Gates: My Plan To Fix The World's Biggest Problems
We can learn a lot about improving the 21st-century world from an icon of the industrial era: the steam engine. Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book "The Most Powerful Idea in the World." Among the...
- Gates Foundation: 2010 Annual Letter From Bill Gates
This is my second annual letter. The focus of this year’s letter is innovation and how it can make the difference between a bleak future and a bright one. 2009 was the first year my full-time work was as co-chair of the foundation, along with Melinda...