Top 100 Bill Gates Quotes
#1. We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
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#2. 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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#3. In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
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#4. Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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#5. The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
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#6. I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.
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#7. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
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#8. Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
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#9. It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.
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#10. Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
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#11. Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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#12. Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company
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#13. Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
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#14. Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
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#15. The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
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#16. Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
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#17. People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
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#18. American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
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#19. The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.
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#20. SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
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#21. I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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#22. Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
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#23. I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
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#24. Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
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#25. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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#26. The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
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#27. This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
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#28. Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
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#29. Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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#30. There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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#31. You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
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#32. As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
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#33. The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
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#34. In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
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#35. I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky (laughter). But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.
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#36. The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.
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#37. Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
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#38. There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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#39. I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it
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#40. Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
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#41. Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.
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#42. When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
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#43. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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#44. If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.
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#45. If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.
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#46. As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was ... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
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#47. Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
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#48. Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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#49. Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.
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#50. The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
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#51. You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
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#52. It's been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
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#53. The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
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#54. The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
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#55. Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
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#56. I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
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#57. I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
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#59. I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
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#60. Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
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#61. I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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#62. The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.
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#63. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
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#64. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
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#65. It's useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
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#66. The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
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#67. There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
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#68. 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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#69. Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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#70. Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
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#71. The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.
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#72. People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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#73. It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
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#74. I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
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#75. Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
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#76. I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
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#77. Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.
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#78. In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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#79. Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
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#80. The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the
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#81. We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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#82. This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
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#83. The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
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#84. Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free
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#85. The mainstream is always under attack.
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#86. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
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#87. My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
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#88. Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.
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#89. I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
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#90. My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.
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#91. If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
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#92. All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them ... to everyone.
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#93. People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
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#94. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
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#95. Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
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#96. In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
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#97. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
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#98. I have $100 billion ... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime ...
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#99. Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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#100. Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.
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