Bill Gates Quotes
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We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.
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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
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Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.
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I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
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Gary Kildall was one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution. He was a very creative computer scientist who did excellent work. Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry. His untimely death was very unfortunate and he and his work will be missed.
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The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
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Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.
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If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear:
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It's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
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Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.
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As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
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I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
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Creativity allows people to be effective.
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Software is more important than hardware.
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From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.
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To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
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He Steve Jobs showed me the boat he was working on … and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.
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Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.
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WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.