Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
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I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
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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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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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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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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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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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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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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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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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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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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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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