Bill Gates Quotes
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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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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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
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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 have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
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People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.
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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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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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Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
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We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
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Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.
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The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
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If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.
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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.