Bill Gates Quotes
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If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.
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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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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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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 have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
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The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
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You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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I believe in generous aid policies.
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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.
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Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
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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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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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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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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
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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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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.