Bill Gates Quotes
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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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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.
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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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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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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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I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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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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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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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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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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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
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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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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
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Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
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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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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.