Bill Gates Quotes
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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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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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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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 most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
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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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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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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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The UK is a very international country.
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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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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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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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Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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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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If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.
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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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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.
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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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The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.