Bill Gates Quotes
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It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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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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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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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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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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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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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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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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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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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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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
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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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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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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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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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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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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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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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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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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.
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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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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.