Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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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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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
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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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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
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The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.
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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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The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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India just went 3 years with no cases of polio. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.
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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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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
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If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.
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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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I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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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.
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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.