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Bill Gates Quotes

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names Picture Quote #1

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic Picture Quote #1

I’m not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I’m a huge believer in Picture Quote #1

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates Picture Quote #1

If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion Picture Quote #1

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don’t get those things? It’s an unbelievable inequity that there isn’t that access Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company Picture Quote #1

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It’s daunting, I suppose Picture Quote #1

I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There’s leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who’ve got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job Picture Quote #1

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that’s tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don’t think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I’m going to try and help improve the world Picture Quote #1

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive Picture Quote #1

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Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie Picture Quote #1

If you think you’re a really good programmer... read Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing Picture Quote #1

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day Picture Quote #1

Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I’m so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world Picture Quote #1

There’s 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure Picture Quote #1

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done Picture Quote #1

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The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it’s more visible Picture Quote #1

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment Picture Quote #1

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol Picture Quote #1

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it Picture Quote #1

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs Picture Quote #1

The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite Picture Quote #1

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The spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work Picture Quote #1

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it Picture Quote #1

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides Picture Quote #1

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good Picture Quote #1

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software Picture Quote #1

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice Picture Quote #1

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Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names (Bill Gates Quotes) The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic (Bill Gates Quotes) I’m not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I’m a huge believer in (Bill Gates Quotes) Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates (Bill Gates Quotes) If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion (Bill Gates Quotes) The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don’t get those things? It’s an unbelievable inequity that there isn’t that access (Bill Gates Quotes) 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 (Bill Gates Quotes) Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company (Bill Gates Quotes) Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It’s daunting, I suppose (Bill Gates Quotes) I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There’s leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who’ve got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job (Bill Gates Quotes) I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that’s tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don’t think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I’m going to try and help improve the world (Bill Gates Quotes) My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive (Bill Gates Quotes) Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie (Bill Gates Quotes) If you think you’re a really good programmer... read Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing (Bill Gates Quotes) Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day (Bill Gates Quotes) Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I’m so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world (Bill Gates Quotes) There’s 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure (Bill Gates Quotes) The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done (Bill Gates Quotes) The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it’s more visible (Bill Gates Quotes) The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment (Bill Gates Quotes) The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol (Bill Gates Quotes) Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it (Bill Gates Quotes) Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs (Bill Gates Quotes) The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite (Bill Gates Quotes) The spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work (Bill Gates Quotes) Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it (Bill Gates Quotes) Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides (Bill Gates Quotes) For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good (Bill Gates Quotes) As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software (Bill Gates Quotes) There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice (Bill Gates Quotes)

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