Bill Gates Quotes
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If we Microsoft Corporation weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
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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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The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
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The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
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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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I'm not a macroeconomics person.
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The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.
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The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
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Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
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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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I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
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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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Two years from now, spam will be solved.
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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
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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 work hard because I love my work.
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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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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
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The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
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There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
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The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
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When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.