Bill Gates Quotes
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If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
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The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
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A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
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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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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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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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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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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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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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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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Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
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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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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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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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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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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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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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Taxes are an investment in America.
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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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Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
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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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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.