Bill Gates Quotes
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
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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.
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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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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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Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
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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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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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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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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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If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
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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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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
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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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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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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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Learn from your unhappy customers.
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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Your customers get better when you do.
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I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
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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.