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Bill Gates Quotes about Technology - Page 2

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These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

Education, Technology, Opportunity

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007), Bill Gates (2008). “Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008”

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Notebook, Technology, Matter

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

Technology, Dependent

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

Moving, Technology, Reality

Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.

Technology, Different, Done

Source: business.highbeam.com

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

Technology, Japan, Two

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Jobs, Smart, Technology

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Success, Business, Technology

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.

Eye, Exercise, Technology

This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.

Technology, Thinking, Profound

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Technology, Challenges, Rewards

Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set ﬁfty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

School, Technology, Years

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

Believe, Technology, People

"A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Success, Business, Technology

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

Jobs, Technology, Government

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

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

Jobs, Technology, Thinking

"Bill Gates on Robots" by Peter Hoare, www.askmen.com.

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

Dream, Technology, Finishing

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.

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

Technology, People, Important

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Teacher, Technology, Special

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Technology, People, Imagination

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”

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

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

Technology, People, Ibm

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

Technology, Ecosystems, Apples

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