Bill Gates Quotes
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The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.
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We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.
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In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.
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The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
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It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.
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The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.
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Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
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Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.
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SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
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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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The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
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The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
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People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
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Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.
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I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.
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The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
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There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.
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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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This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
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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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Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
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Even when things are stable, that's not easy to work in Africa because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.