Bill Gates Quotes
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There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
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There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
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I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.
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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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To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
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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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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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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
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Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
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Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
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It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
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Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
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To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
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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.
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My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
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Our leadership in Microsoft has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun.
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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 want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.