Bill Gates Quotes
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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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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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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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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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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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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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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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Taxes are an investment in America.
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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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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
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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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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 job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
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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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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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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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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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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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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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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.