Bill Gates Quotes
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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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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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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.
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I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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I believe in generous aid policies.
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When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
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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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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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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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Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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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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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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Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.