Bill Gates Quotes
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
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I believe in generous aid policies.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.
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Inspiration starts somewhere.
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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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Don't let complexity stop you.
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If you're a guest at my $113 million house, you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
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I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
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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 feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.
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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
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I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.
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Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
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You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.
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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
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Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.
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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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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.
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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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If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.