Bill Gates Quotes
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We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
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This antitrust thing will blow over.
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Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.
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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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The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
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I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
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Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
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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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I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.
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By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
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The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support.
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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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The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
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I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.
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I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.
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I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.
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Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
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I think there's even a chance that R&D and innovation budgets might be increased during Donald Trump Administration and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.
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We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course Barack Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.
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We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.
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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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Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.
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Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.