Bill Gates Quotes

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

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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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  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 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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  • Mistakes
  • Mess Up
  • Parent`s fault

• Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

  

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  • History
  • Promise
  • Innovation

• The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

  

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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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  • People
  • Heart
  • Done

• 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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  • Teacher
  • Performance
  • Class

• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

  

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  • Good
  • Look
  • Make It

• 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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  • God
  • Why
  • Religious

• 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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  • Government
  • Philanthropy
  • Middle East

• I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

  

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  • Goal
  • Competition
  • Improve

• We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

  

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  • People
  • Feedback

• I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

  

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  • University
  • Toppers
  • Microsoft company

• 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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  • Changes
  • Project
  • Software

• What I do best is share my enthusiasm.

  

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  • Enthusiasm

• People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

  

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  • People
  • Readers
  • Knowledgeable

• 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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  • People
  • Vaccines
  • Epidemic

• Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

  

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  • Treatment
  • Prevention

• 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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  • Business

• If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.

  

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  • Dollars
  • PR

• 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.

  

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  • People
  • Money
  • Computer industry

• Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

  

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  • Energy
  • Market
  • Product

• We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

  

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  • People
  • Learn
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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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  • Change
  • Underestimate
  • Overestimate