Bill Gates Quotes
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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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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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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 take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
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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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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 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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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
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Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
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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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When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.
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The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.