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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 13

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The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

Block, Caring, Impact

Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

Clear Goals, Progress, Mark

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

Strong, Opportunity, Discovery

Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Writing, Skills, People

I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

Inspirational, Reading, Night

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

Technology, Two, Years

If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

Airplane, Sunset, Presidential

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Certain, Utility

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

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

Real, Medicine, Political

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

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Communication, News, Hierarchy

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Smart, Creativity, Technology

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

Running, Important, Creation

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

Drinking, Glasses, Water

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Success, Technology, Car

Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Men, Wish, Investing

"In Search of the Real Bill Gates". "Time" Magazine, October 20, 2005.

Being maniacal about something is very helpful.

Helpful

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

Life, Inspiring, Education

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

Smart, Done, Want

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

Wind, Availability, Requirements

Source: www.businessinsider.com

The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

Communication, Culture, Information

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

Successful, Microsoft, Committed

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Wells

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

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Moving, Kids, India

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Funny, Memories, Dumb

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