Bill Gates Quotes
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
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We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course Barack Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.
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The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
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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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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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There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
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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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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
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Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
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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 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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Two years from now, spam will be solved.
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We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.
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When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
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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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Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.
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If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
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At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge period of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.