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Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. (Bill Gates)
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. View quote
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I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. View quote
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Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want. View quote
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I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. View quote
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I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett. View quote
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Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. View quote
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? View quote
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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. View quote
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The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. View quote
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Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about. (Bill Gates)
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk. View quote
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In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. View quote
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Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. View quote
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The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. View quote
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OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. View quote
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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. View quote
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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' View quote
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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies. View quote
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I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. View quote
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. (Bill Gates)
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. View quote
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I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. View quote
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It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. View quote
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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. View quote
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