Bill Gates Quotes
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We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
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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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Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?
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Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.
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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
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The future of advertising is the Internet.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.
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I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.
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Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
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My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
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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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I think of myself as a global citizen.
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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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I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.
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Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world...
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When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
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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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Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.
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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
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The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
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Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.