Bill Gates Quotes
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
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I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.
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Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
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Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
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If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
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Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
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It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
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With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.
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You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
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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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In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
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China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.
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Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
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We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
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Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.
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The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.
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Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
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China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
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I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
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We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
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Computers and games don't waste time - people do.
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There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.
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Bridge is the king of all card games.
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I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.