Bill Gates Quotes
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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
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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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I spend a lot of time reading.
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We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
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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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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
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Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.
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We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.
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Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.
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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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In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
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Taxes are an investment in America.
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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.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
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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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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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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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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.