Bill Gates Quotes
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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'm not a macroeconomics person.
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Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
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Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.
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We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."
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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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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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I work hard because I love my work.
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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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There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
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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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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
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Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
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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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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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The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
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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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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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Two years from now, spam will be solved.
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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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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
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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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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.