Notes on Watching "Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (2019)"

No matter how rich you are, you will have the same amount of time as everyone else has.

 

Interviewer: What's your biggest fear?

Bill Gate: My mind stops working.

 

A good way of designing an eco-friendly sewage system is to burn sewage; water vaporized in this process can be turned to clean and drinkable water, heat resulted from burning sewage can be converted into energy in the form of fire or electricity to power the system, and ashes obtained can be used as fertilizer to grow food.

 

Bill Gates takes with him a bag of books wherever he goes. He developed the ability to read and comprehend books quickly.

 

Bill is very determined. When he works on something, he works on it day and night.

 

Each one of us has to start up with developing his or her own definition of success. And when we have these specific expectations of ourselves, we are more likely to live up to them. Ultimately it's not what you get or even what you give, it's what you become. --Mary Gates