Bill Gates Quotes
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.
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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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Taxes are an investment in America.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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You can be a business thinker.
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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
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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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Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.
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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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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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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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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 the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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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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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 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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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.