Bill Gates Quotes
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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.
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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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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
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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 feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
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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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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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So on the demand side for energy, there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic.
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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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I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
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There is this thing called the GPL Gnu Public Licence, which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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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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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
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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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If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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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.