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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 19

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If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

Communication, Health, Opportunity

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

Balance, Balanced Life, Balanced

It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

Growing Up, Focus, Ems

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Inspiring, Money, Business

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.

Mother, Children, Business

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

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.

Mean, Ecosystems, Climate

As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

Positive, Optimistic, Optimism

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Government, Risk, Way

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

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Needs, World, Hierarchy

"Bill Gates says putting worldwide internet access before malaria research is 'a joke'" by Jacob Kastrenakes, www.theverge.com. November 1, 2013.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Aids Day, Disease, Hard

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

Numbers, Want, Bugs

"Focus" Magazine, October 23, 2005.

If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.

Thinking, Needs, Care

Source: thesource.com

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Government, Risk, Problem

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

People, Trying, Pieces

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

Taken, Priorities, Lists

Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

Winning, Thinking, Years

"In Search Of The Real Bill Gates" by Walter Isaacson, www.cnn.com. 1996.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Important

"Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Annual progress report 2013, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Ideas, People, Christmas Wishes

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

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Inspirational, Motivational, Writing

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Taken, Clothes, Care

"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.

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Historical, Operating Systems, Bits

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Powerful, Thinking, Political

Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Jobs, Smart, Technology

Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

Believe, Prosperous Future, Self

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

Ideas, Entrepreneur, Advice

"A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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