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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 38

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The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Australia, Dollars, Helping

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Quality, Research

"Bill Gates on the importance of energy research for the future". Interview with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. September 14, 2011.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

Moving, People, Linux

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

Moving, Shopping, Adults

I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.

Jobs, Vaccines, People

Source: www.politico.com

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

Married, Life Is, Married Life

Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.

Business, Taken, People

"A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

Decision, Made, Tempting

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

Impact, Important, Window

"What's this? Picking Bill Gates' brain at Consumer Electronics Show". Interview with Edward C. Baig, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 9, 2008.

I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country.

Country, Believe, Kids

here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.

Government, Europe, Growing

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.

Kentucky, Flames, Years

"Bill Gates’ Plutonium Pipe Dream: Convert Mountains of Depleted Uranium at Paducah to Power Earth for Centuries". "EnviroNews DC News Bureau" with Josh Cunnings, www.environews.tv. March 14, 2016.

Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's well accepted. I mean, it's not politically controversial that this is a great humanitarian effort. But budgets are very very tight.

Mean, Effort, Malaria

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.

Years, Government, Priorities

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.

Country, Weather, Steps

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

Country, Thinking, Government

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

Adoption, Unbelievable, Software

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

Thinking, Ideas, Challenges

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.

Data, Vaccines, Safety

Source: www.geekwire.com

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

Success, Government, People

Hey, size works against excellence.

Excellence, Hey, Size

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Numbers, Innovation, Way

Source: www.cbsnews.com

If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.

Mean, Usa, People

Source: www.cbsnews.com

Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

Development, Want, Way

Source: www.cbsnews.com

We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.

War, Hard Work, Government

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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