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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 12

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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Dream, Impact, Years

Bill Gates's speech at News Conference: A New Era of Technical Leadership at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, news.microsoft.com. June 15, 2006.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.107, Hachette UK

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.

Impact, Able, Making Changes

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.

Running, Want, Littles

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Thinking, Important, Moral

"Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

Engineering, Focus, Important

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.61, Hachette UK

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.

Ideas, Tools, Mail

"One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. Feb. 16, 2005.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Inspiration, Acting, Action

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

Dad, School, Successful

The best teacher is very interactive.

Success, Teacher, Best Teacher

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.

Ideas, People, Innovation

"Research and development for startups - live discussion" by Matthew Caines, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2014.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

Years, Giving, Competition

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Community, Investing, Poor

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

Giving, Balance, Wealthy

"Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2014.

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.

Tvs, Shows

"Bill Gates predicted the future in January 2000". Entertainment Weekly Interview, ew.com. October 28, 2015.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Kids, Cutting, Design

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

Computer, Feedback, Program

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

Taken, Organization, Clothes

"Bill Gates interview: I have no use for money. This is God’s work". Interview with Neil Tweedie, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

Zero, People, Want

"Bill Gates Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates". Interview with James Coates, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 24, 1996.

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

Jobs, Memories, Floating

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

Doe, Enlargement, Might

"Gates forecasts victory over spam" by Tim Weber, news.bbc.co.uk. January 24, 2004.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

Educational, Self Confidence, Math

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

Thinking, Differences, Empowering

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Money, Business, Commitment

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