Bill Gates Quotes
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There's life and death in every email.
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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
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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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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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I believe in generous aid policies.
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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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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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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
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You can be a business thinker.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.
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I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
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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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We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
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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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Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
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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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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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If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.