Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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I get more spam than anyone I know.
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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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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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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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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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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’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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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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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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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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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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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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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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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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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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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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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.