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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 31

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I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Thinking, Political, Chinese

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Definitions, Bases, Behinds

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Team, People, Giving

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

Believe, Way, Life Is

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

Oil, Gone, Crisis

"Bill Gates On The Future Of American Energy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.

Business, Night, Talking

"A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Cancer, Leader, Drug

"Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

Mean, Thinking, People

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

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Fall, Government, People

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

India, Aids, Providers

If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

Country, Zero, Years

"Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

Leadership, Children, Health

This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.

Country, Health, Stronger

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

Kind, Roof, Solar Panels

"Q&A: Bill Gates On The World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Dream, Technology, Finishing

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

Kids, Able, Internet

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Technology, Electric Shock, Discipline

"The PWOT Bill Gates Interview". Interview with Andrew Lephter, slated.org. April 5, 2008.

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.

Past, Years, Two

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

School, Kids, Different

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

Dad, Math, Thinking

"Hello Reddit – I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft founder. Ask me anything". www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Food, Waste, Should

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

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Technology, People, Important

Africa is on the rise.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Jobs, People, Focus

"The strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" by Matt Weinberger, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2017,.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Goal, Poverty, Helping

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