Bill Gates Quotes
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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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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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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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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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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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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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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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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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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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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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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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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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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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
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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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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
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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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I spend a lot of time reading.