Bill Gates Quotes
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Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.
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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
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I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
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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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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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The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.
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If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
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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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The microprocessor is a miracle.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.
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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
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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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The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well?
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Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.