Bill Gates Quotes
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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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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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Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.
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If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.
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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.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
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Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
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I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.
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A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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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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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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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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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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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You can be a business thinker.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.