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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 39

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I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Sorry, Years, People

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

Inspirational, Differences, People

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

Cutting, Thinking, Elderly

We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.

Children, Believe, Vaccines

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

When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives.

Medicine, Generosity, Levels

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.

Believe, Forever, Cost

"We Can Eradicate Malaria—Within a Generation". www.gatesnotes.com. November 2, 2014.

We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.

Country, Hard Times, Rich Countries

Source: www.businessinsider.com

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

Jobs, Philosophy, Interesting

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Zero, Business, Fall

"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.

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

Cutting, Thinking, Government

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Country, Zero, Average

"Innovating to zero!". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

This antitrust thing will blow over.

Blow, Antitrust, Foresight

"Gates Quoted As Seeing Case 'Blow Over'" by Steve Lohr, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 1998.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Believe, Capitalism

"A Q&A with Bill Gates". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Teaching, Kids, Teaching Kids

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

Moving, Machines, Plugs

The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.

Giving, Aids, Greenhouses

"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.

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.

Thinking, Numbers, 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.

Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.

Country, Mean, Japan

"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.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

Epidemics, Would Be, Natural

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Country, Growing Up, Talking

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

Thinking, Microsoft, Java

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

Memories, Stupid, Computer

"Build your foundation with basic". Q&A with Bill Gates, buffalonews.com. January 30, 1996.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

Growth, Population, Healthcare

Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!

Friday, Monday, Tuesday

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Cancer, People, Dying

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