Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.
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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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Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.
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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.
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I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.
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If you're a guest at my $113 million house, you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
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Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.
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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
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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 could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.
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Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
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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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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.
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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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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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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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Our teachers deserve better feedback.