Bill Gates Quotes
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Don't let complexity stop you.
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We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.
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This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.
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I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.
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I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
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I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.
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I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
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I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
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Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.
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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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I think there will be PCs at every price point.
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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
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The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
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If we Microsoft Corporation weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
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Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.
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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
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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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.
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Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.
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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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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.