Bill Gates Quotes
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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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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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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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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business...
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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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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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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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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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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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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.
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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 all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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The mainstream is always under attack.
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.