Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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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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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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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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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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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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Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success...
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.
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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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There's life and death in every email.
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
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Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
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I get more spam than anyone I know.
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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
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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.
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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.