Bill Gates Quotes - Page 22

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• As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Worry, Becoming

  Source: thesource.com

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• The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

  Bill Gates

  People, Investing, World

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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.

  Bill Gates

  Beach, Art, Sunset

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• The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

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  Government, People, Giving

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• The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

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  Science, Years, Ideas

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• 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 irritating.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Business

  "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2003.

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• It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

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  Educational, People, Focus

  "Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference". voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

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• So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Energy, Gone

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.

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  Jobs, Memories, Writing

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• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

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  Gratitude, Kings, Food

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• I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

  Bill Gates

  Watches, Used, Spots

  "Exclusive: A Chat with Bill Gates". Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. February 14, 2003.

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• I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

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  Magic, World, Problem

  "Bill Gates: here's my plan to improve our world - and how you can help". www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

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  Thinking, Keys, Progress

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• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Print Media, Magazines

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• The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

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  People, Trying, Wake Up

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• I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

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  Writing, Ideas, Drawing

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• 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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  Sports, Thinking, Weather

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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.

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  Notebook, Smart, Phones

  "The PC Era Is Just Beginning". "Business Week" Magazine, www.businessweek.com. March 22, 2005.

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• I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

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  Communication, Thinking, Html

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• The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .

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  Book, Average, Names

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• In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

  Bill Gates

  Men, Deep Understanding, Culture

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• I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution.

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  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

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  Teaching, Skills, Bored

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• We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."

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  Yes You Can, Innovation, Saying Yes

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