Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
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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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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses...
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Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.
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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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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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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
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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 studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees...
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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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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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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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I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.
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Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
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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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Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.
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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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The internet is just a passing fad.
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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
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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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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.