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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 34

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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where

The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

Business, Government, Ideas

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

Ipads, Frustrated, Trying

"Bill Gates: Ipad Users 'Frustrated,' Need Microsoft Surface" By Matt Clark, www.ign.com. May 6, 2013.

The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

Death, Eye, Media

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

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

Ocean, Rivers, People

"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.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

Giving, Empowering, Vision

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Life, Change, Technology

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

Leadership, Giving, Decision

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.164, Hachette UK

I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

Real, Moving, Years

"Bill Gates speaks... in 1989 (and movie title mashups)" by Richi Jennings, www.computerworld.com. March 26, 2007.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Understanding, Pushing, Boundaries

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

People, Roles, World

Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.

People, Imagination, Able

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

People, Use, Tough

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

Mean, Dying, Rooms

Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Nice, Book, Obscure

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Epidemics, People, Community

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

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Special, Disease, Polio

"Bill Gates Is Trying To Eliminate Polio, But Radical Islamists Keep Killing People To Stop Him" by Michael Kelley, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2013.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Tools, Disease, Study

"Bill Gates Answers Questions From Arianna And Readers In Exclusive Huffington Post Impact Livestream". Interview With Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

Children, Imagine, Fortune

"World's richest man tries to hold back 'gathering tempest' with £63m gift" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2002.

We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.

Wind, Needs, Looks

"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.

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

Technology, Trying, Friendly

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

Keys, Growth, Population

"Bill Gates' Q&A with Chris Anderson: Video unveiled". blog.ted.com. February 6, 2009.

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

Jobs, Kids, Dying

"Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

Believe, Thinking, World

Twitter post from Aug 06, 2013

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

Appreciation, Body, Rich

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

Practice, Use, Better Life

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