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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 9

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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Finite Number, Numbers, Achievement

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

Sex, Cooking, Where You Live

Twitter post from Aug 09, 2014

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Baby, Children, Names

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Chairs, Hops

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

Team, Focus, Unity

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

Nice, Ipads, Wish

"Bill Gates Joins the iPad's Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldn't Care Less" by Brent Schlender, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2010.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Giving, Information, Edges

"The New Road Ahead". www.microsoft.com. December 2005.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Able, Carbon, Humans

Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.215, John Wiley & Sons

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

Mean, People, Information

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Communication, Thinking, Media

"Inside the Mind of Bill Gates". Book by Shaun Green, September 5, 2014.

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

Simple, Degrees, Pieces

"Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry". Book by Suzanne Lammers, 1986.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

Information, Online, Software

In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

People, Add, Done

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Running, Years, Long

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Business, Technology, Marketing

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

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Poverty, China, Rate

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Nice, Technology, Waste

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

Two, People, Earth

"Bill Gates: here's my plan to improve our world - and how you can help". www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

Keys, Computer, Window

"Bill Gates admits early mobile strategy was 'mistake' and hedges on Ballmer" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

Funny, Humor, People

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

Computer, Breakthrough

Source: www.achievement.org

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

Experience, Poverty, Bigs

"Column: Great lines from commencement speeches of the past" by Randy Blaser, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2017.

I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

Inspirational, Toppers, Today

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

Doe, Wells, Optimistic Life

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