Bill Gates quotes - page 21

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. (Bill Gates)
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large. View quote
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People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, ... There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA personal digital assistant as we are. View quote
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The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways...are available thanks to technology. View quote
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. View quote
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Often you just have to rely on your intuition. View quote
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I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. View quote
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I find golf very relaxing.it's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive. View quote
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When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war. That's why we had a barrel like this down in our basement, filled with cans of food and water. When the nuclear attack came, we were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel. Today, the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn't look like this. Instead, it looks like this. If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes. View quote
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The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear: We cannot maintain a level of one thousand or two thousand cases a year. Either we eradicate polio, or we return to the days of tens of thousands of cases per year. That is no alternative at all. We don't let children die because it is fatiguing to save them. Our commitment as a foundation is to work with partners until no children die from polio. View quote
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I'd like to start by telling you about my wife Melinda's Aunt Myra. We see her a few times a year. Aunt Myra worked for many years taking reservations for Delta Airlines. She lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina, and then she moved to Dallas, Melinda's hometown. She loves to see our kids. When we all get together, she'll sit down on the floor and play games with them. Aunt Myra also has polio. She's in braces, and she has been ever since she was a little girl. Our children only know what polio is because of their aunt. Otherwise, the disease would just be another historical fact they learn about in school. In fact, even though I was born just three years after one of the worst polio epidemics in American history, I didn't know anyone with polio when I was growing up. That's how far we've come. (Bill Gates)
We are running the worst testing system, in terms of who gets access to it, of any country. View quote
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When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn't the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary. View quote
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To get [the breakthroughs on the "Technologies needed" list] ready soon enough to make a difference, governments need to . . . [q]uintuple clean energy and climate-related R&D over the next decade. . . . View quote
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As a Consumer . . . Sign up for a green pricing program with your electric utility. . . . Reduce your home's emissions. . . . Buy an electric vehicle. . . . Try a plant-based burger. View quote
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