Bill Gates Quotes
I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
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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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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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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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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
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I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.
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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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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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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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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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People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
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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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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.
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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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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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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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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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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.