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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 20

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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Fiction

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

Unique, Thinking, Neurons

Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.214, John Wiley & Sons

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

Jobs, Fun, Reading

When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.

Mean, Curves, Years

"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.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Winning, Common, Bigs

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Earthquakes, People, Support

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

People, Kenya, Use

Twitter post from Jan 03, 2013

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Believe, Successful, Government

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

Stupid, Chinese, Wish

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

Smart, People, Growth

You can be a business thinker.

Thinker

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Inspiring, Success, Business

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

Thinking, Keys, People

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

Writing, Different, Schedules

Long-term vision and product strategy.

Long, Vision, Strategy

My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.

Numbers, Special, Return

"Bill Gates Too Rich For US Tax Computers...", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

Country, Thinking, Long

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle.

Children, Care, Problem

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

Business, Believe, Giving

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

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

Jobs, Organization, People

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

Thinking, Keys, Progress

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Shadow, Cameras, Looks

"What's Next for Bill Gates?". Interview with Sonja Steptoe, content.time.com. March 10, 2006.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

Support, Maintaining, Helping

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

Gratitude, Kings, Food

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

Family, Time, Kids

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

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