Bill Gates quotes - page 3

I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years. (Bill Gates)
One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world. View quote
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Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time. View quote
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. View quote
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Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world... if you do so, you are insulting yourself. View quote
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What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications. View quote
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He [Steve Jobs] showed me the boat he was working on ... and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen. View quote
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It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. View quote
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You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong... View quote
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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. ... I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis. View quote
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Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record. You really have to change the curriculum and the teacher. And it's never going to work on a device where you don't have a keyboard-type input. Students aren't there just to read things. They're actually supposed to be able to write and communicate. And so it's going to be more in the PC realm-it's going to be a low-cost PC that lets them be highly interactive. (Bill Gates)
We would like every country to be self-sufficient so that both in terms of running a good primary health care system and funding a good primary health care system, it's all OK, and they just participate in regional bodies that have standby capacity to deal with these things. Africa, of all the places in the world, is the furthest behind on being able to do that. And through aid, health and health systems in Africa have improved very, very dramatically. View quote
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"You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that." quoted in. View quote
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We always have to be serious about public health in a global sense and surveillance for "the next one", because we don't know where it will emerge. View quote
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. View quote
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You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years. View quote
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. View quote
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The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. View quote
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. View quote
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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. View quote
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I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees. (Bill Gates)
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. View quote
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. View quote
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People everywhere love Windows. View quote
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. View quote
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