Bill Gates Quotes
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
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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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I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
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The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.
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I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.
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Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.
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Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
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Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
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With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.
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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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When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.
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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
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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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By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
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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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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.