Bill Gates Quotes
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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
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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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Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.
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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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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 really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.
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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
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The mainstream is always under attack.
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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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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
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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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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
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Your customers get better when you do.
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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.
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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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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
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A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.