Bill Gates quotes - page 13

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it. (Bill Gates)
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. View quote
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Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. View quote
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Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. View quote
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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. View quote
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Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. View quote
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My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. View quote
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My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. View quote
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There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth. View quote
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Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know. View quote
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Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. (Bill Gates)
The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. View quote
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It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. View quote
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You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. View quote
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India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. View quote
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Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. View quote
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Africa is on the rise. View quote
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should. View quote
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. (Bill Gates)
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching. View quote
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The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics. View quote
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I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into. View quote
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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. View quote
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