Bill Gates Quotes
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The kids are a big part of my schedule.
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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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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
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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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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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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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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 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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If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
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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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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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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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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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Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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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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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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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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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.