Bill Gates Quotes
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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
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I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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It was really phenomenal Warren Buffett donation. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.
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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
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The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.
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In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
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In response to Java Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
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The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
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The scientific understanding of some of these childhood diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.
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We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.
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One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
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When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
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Convert bad news to good news.
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In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three parts. One is the office. That's the one I'm most excited about and is the most concrete.
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So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
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The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'
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People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
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America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.
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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
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If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.