Bill Gates Quotes
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At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.
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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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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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You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.
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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
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I think of myself as a global citizen.
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Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
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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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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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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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I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.
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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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I think there will be PCs at every price point.
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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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Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
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3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.
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People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
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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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I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
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You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.
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Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.