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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 27

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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Country, Rich Countries, Rich

"Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

Confusing, Ridiculous

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

Want, Information, Complicated

"Interview: Bill Gates on convergence". Interview with Marc Ferranti, www.macworld.com. January 8, 2007.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Phones, People, Messages

I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump.

Reason, Trump, Mets

Source: thesource.com

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

Teacher, Educational, Bridges

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Aids Day, Incredibles, Stigma

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

Change, Quality, Velocity

"Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy". Book by Bill Gates, 1999.

Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

Country, War, Epidemics

Source: www.spiegel.de

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

Age, Gutenberg, Culture

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

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Improvement, Computer, Decades

"Gates to Complex: PCS Work Poorly". www.wired.com. November 12, 2001.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Interesting, Generations, Done

BusinessWeek, November 26, 1984.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Moving, Innovation, Pace

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

Business, School, College

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

Running, Usa, People

Source: thesource.com

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

Creating, World, Responsible

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

Average, Brain, Spiders

"The Bill Gates Interview". Interview with Andrew Lephter, Pointless Waste of Time Website, slated.org. February 21, 2000.

If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.

Hair, Lenses, Asking

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Order, Long, United States

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

Dad, Names, Confusing

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

Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

School, Kids, Years

Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

Thinking, People, Special

Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Life, Education, School

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

Teacher, Thinking, Make You Think

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

Phones, Numbers, Long

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

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