Bill Gates Quotes
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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Change the boundaries of business.
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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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The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.
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When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
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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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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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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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As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
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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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We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.
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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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Warren Buffett met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.
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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
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Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.
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Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
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There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business...
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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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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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.