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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 14

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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Window, Integrated, Software

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Doe, Skype, Revenue

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

Creating, Tasks, Use

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

Infinite, Bandwidth, Decades

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.

Yield, Hunger And Poverty, Increase

"5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Full Interview" by Dana Goldstein, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2010.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

Struggle, Healthy, Might

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Magic, Lines, Should

"The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. November 1, 2000.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

Keys, Machines, Elements

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

Taken, Ideas, People

Challenges and Strategy Memo, May 16, 1991.

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

People, Nuclear, Safe

"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.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Government, Play, Innovation

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

Leadership, Jobs, Business

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

Inspirational, Funny, People

Information work is thinking work.

Thinking, Information

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.16, Hachette UK

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Success, Basketball, Player

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Book, Secret, Internet

"Q&A: Bill Gates On Flying Cars, The Malaria Epidemic, And Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

Believe, Government, Issues

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

Running, Cutting, Technology

Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Success, Communication, People

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

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

Fall, People, Would Be

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Business, Come Up, Breakthrough

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Numbers, Tasks, Helping

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

Education, Technology, Opportunity

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007), Bill Gates (2008). “Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008”

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Numbers, Would Be, Development

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Engineering, Combination, Software

Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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