Bill Gates Quotes
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I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
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In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand. 'Bill Gates - Rotary International' Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (21 January 2009)
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It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
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I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
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The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.
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I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.
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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
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It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
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It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of hundreds of people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.
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Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.
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In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
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I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.
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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
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If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.
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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
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I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!