Bill Gates Quotes
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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
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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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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.
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Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
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I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
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If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.
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If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!
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There are ecosystems like coral reefs at risk through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.
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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
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There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.
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There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
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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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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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Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
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The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
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Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.
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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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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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There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.