With automation comes abundance.

“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 some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.” ― Bill Gates

“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.” ― Bill Gates

“Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.” ― Bill Gates

“Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.” ― Bill Gates

“The climate is like a bathtub that’s slowly filling up with water. Even if we slow the flow of water to a trickle, the tub will eventually fill up and water will come spilling out onto the floor. That’s the disaster we have to prevent. Setting a goal to only reduce our emissions—but not eliminate them—won’t do it.” ― Bill Gates

“Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.” ― Bill Gates

“times with follow-up questions. Eventually it sank in. The world needs to provide more energy so the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases. Now the problem seemed even harder. It wasn’t enough to deliver cheap, reliable energy for the poor. It also had to be clean.” ― Bill Gates

“[Bill] Gates said he connected with [Eddy] Izzard even though it would appear they have nothing in common — but that might be the point the author is trying to communicate. "I've recently discovered that I have a lot in common with a funny, dyslexic, transgender actor, comedian, escape artist, unicyclist, ultra-marathoner, and pilot from Great Britain. Except all of the above," Gates wrote. "We're all cut from the same cloth. In his words, 'We are all totally different, but we are all exactly the same” ― Bill Gates

“In essence, governments can say to each other, “If you want to do business with us, you’ll have to take climate change seriously.” ― Bill Gates

“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.” ― Jeff Bezos

“Start With the Customer and Work Backward” ― Jeff Bezos

“We humans coevolve with our tools. We change our tools, and then our tools change us.” ― Jeff Bezos

“You know the business plan won’t survive its first encounters with reality,” he says. “But the discipline of writing the plan forces you to think through some of the issues and to get sort of mentally comfortable in the space. Then you start to understand, if you push on this knob, this will move over here and so on. So, that’s the first step.” ― Jeff Bezos

“Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.” ― Jeff Bezos

“Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.” ― Jeff Bezos

“the quality of customer experience a partner delivers is the single most important criteria in our selection process—we simply won’t build a partnership with any company that does not share our passion for serving customers.” ― Jeff Bezos

“Second, most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70 percent of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90 percent, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.” ― Jeff Bezos

“We believe that it’s technology married with the humanities that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.” ― Jeff Bezos

“You collect as much data as you can, you immerse yourself in that data but then you make the decision with your heart.” ― Jeff Bezos

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.” ― Elon Musk