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I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. (Bill Gates)
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs. View quote
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If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. View quote
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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. View quote
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. View quote
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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. View quote
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WWW Nice toy, but what a waste of time. View quote
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I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. View quote
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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. View quote
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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. View quote
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When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. (Bill Gates)
Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processesthinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before. View quote
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. View quote
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Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. View quote
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. View quote
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. View quote
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If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. View quote
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. View quote
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical. View quote
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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. View quote
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People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. (Bill Gates)
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. View quote
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I'm not a macroeconomics person. View quote
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In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. View quote
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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. View quote
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