Bill Gates Quotes
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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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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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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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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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
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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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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
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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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I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.
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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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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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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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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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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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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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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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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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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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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.