Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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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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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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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
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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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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
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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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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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In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
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The future of advertising is the Internet.
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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.
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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
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The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
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The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.
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I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
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We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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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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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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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.