We’ve collected the best Bill Gates Quotes. Use them as an inspiration.
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In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
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There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‘The government‘s corrupt,’ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‘The Most Powerful Idea in the World.’
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can’t type. They can’t create documents.
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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
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There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.
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My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.
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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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Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
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The best teacher is very interactive.
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With tech companies, whoever‘s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‘Is this the end of them?’ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.
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Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.
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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
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Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.
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3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.
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In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
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Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‘Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.’ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.
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DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.
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Steve Jobs’ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
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We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.
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When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
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I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.
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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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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that’s expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren’t used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.
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The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.
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In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
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I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.
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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
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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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No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
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Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.
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It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
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When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn’t allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in – if they could, they would do so.
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We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.
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In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It’s very expensive.
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Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.
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If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
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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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You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.
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Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
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There’s 20 companies that I have investments in – some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.
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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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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
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I think there will be PCs at every price point.
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Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
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To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.
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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.
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Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
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I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
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I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.
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By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
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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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When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.
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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.
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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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Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.
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Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.
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Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
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There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
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Eventually, all companies are replaced.
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If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
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Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
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To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
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For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
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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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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
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We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
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