Bill Gates Quotes
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Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.
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AIDS is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
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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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Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
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Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
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I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.
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Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
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The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.
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I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.
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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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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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Common Core is a big win for education.
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If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
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The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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Convert bad news to good news.
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Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
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My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.