Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
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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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What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.
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The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
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It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.
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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
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The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
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With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.
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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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As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
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Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.
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Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
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Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
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Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.
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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
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The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
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I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
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Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
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The world needs banking but it does not need banks.