Bill Gates Quotes
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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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There's life and death in every email.
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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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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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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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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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I believe in generous aid policies.
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If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
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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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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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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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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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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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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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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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You can be a business thinker.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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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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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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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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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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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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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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.