Bill Gates Quotes
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A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
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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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When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
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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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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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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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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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SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
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Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
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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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At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge period of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.
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Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.
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The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect.
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People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.
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Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to Warren Buffett, that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.
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Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
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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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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.