Bill Gates Quotes
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The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
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Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.
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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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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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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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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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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.
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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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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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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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I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees...
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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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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
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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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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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Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
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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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Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.
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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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We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence - presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something.
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If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
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I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.