Bill Gates Quotes
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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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We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.
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When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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India just went 3 years with no cases of polio. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.
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Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
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Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
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There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.
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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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Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.
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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 bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
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With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
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Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
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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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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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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
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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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The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
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Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
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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."