Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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I get more spam than anyone I know.
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There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success...
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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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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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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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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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Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
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We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
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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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Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
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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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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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Success is a lousy teacher.