Bill Gates Quotes
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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
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At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.
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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 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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There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you...
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If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.
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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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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
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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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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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If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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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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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
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If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
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That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.