Bill Gates Quotes
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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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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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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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Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you...
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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There's life and death in every email.
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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
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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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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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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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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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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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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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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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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
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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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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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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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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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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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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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To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.