Bill Gates Quotes
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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
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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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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
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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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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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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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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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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
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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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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.
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The UK is a very international country.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
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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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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
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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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I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
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Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.