Bill Gates Quotes
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By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
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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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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
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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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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
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A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
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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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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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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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In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
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I'm not a macroeconomics person.
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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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My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.
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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
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I think of myself as a global citizen.
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Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.
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I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.
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Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
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Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.