Bill Gates Quotes
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Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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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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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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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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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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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
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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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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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In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
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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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A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
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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 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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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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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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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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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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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.