Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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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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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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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.
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I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
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If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
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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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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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When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
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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 thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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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 general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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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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There's life and death in every email.
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We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.