Bill Gates Quotes
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The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
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With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.
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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
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A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
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Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
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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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Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
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Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
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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 give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
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The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
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At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge period of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.