Bill Gates Quotes
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In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
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I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.
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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
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Talking about his first computer. Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.
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The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
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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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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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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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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
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You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
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We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
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Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.
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The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.