Bill Gates Quotes

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Bill Gates

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 28, 1955

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

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By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

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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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I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

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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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This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

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Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

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The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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The future of advertising is the Internet.

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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

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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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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

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