Bill Gates Quotes
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Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
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We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
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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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Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren Buffett trusted us.
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Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
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Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's less than 6 million a year. We have a clear path to get that under 3 million a year and we know what to do. And this generation of young Africans is a very large group.
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Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.
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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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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
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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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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
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Common Core is a big win for education.
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There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
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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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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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My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.
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A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.
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Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
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As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.