Bill Gates Quotes
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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
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We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
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Bridge is the king of all card games.
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I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
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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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The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well?
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Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.
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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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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
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By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
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Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.
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I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.
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Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.