Bill Gates Quotes
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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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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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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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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.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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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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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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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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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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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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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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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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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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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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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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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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The mainstream is always under attack.
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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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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.