Bill Gates Quotes
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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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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
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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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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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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
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Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
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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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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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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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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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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.
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'You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.' quoted in (February 2010)5
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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.