Bill Gates Quotes
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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
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I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
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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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One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
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AIDS is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
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The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
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You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
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Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
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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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There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.
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Information work is thinking work.
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Life's not fair, get over it!
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Vision without execution is daydreaming.
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Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.
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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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If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
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Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.
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If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
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Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.
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The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
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Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
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Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.