Bill Gates Quotes
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Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.
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I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.
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No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
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The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.
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The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
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Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.
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I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.
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I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
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Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
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If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
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Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.
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If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!
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Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.
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WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.
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Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
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We Corbis make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.