Bill Gates Quotes
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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
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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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We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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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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When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
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There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
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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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Success is a lousy teacher.
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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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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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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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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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 think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
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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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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.