Bill Gates Quotes
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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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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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
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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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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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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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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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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.
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Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.
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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
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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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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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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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I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
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What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'
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As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.