Bill Gates Quotes
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My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away.
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The future of advertising is the Internet.
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The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
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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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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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My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
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I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
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Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.
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You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.
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China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
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You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.
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It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.
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Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.
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It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.
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I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
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It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda Gates and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
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One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.
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I work hard because I love my work.
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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
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I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.
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The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.