Bill Gates Quotes
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Let's burn the 99%.
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If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (forecast) by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3 (per year).
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A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.
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We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.
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In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
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Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
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If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.
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Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
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As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
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If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.
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People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?
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We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number - before our doom comes.
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Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.
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Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.
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I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.