Bill Gates Quotes
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The UK is a very international country.
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
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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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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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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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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
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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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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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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 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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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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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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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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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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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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The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.
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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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That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.