Bill Gates Quotes
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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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Warren Buffett met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.
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The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.
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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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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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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.
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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 want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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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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On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.
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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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Success is a lousy teacher.
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Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.