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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.
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Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
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We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, Yes, you can.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
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The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
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Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.
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I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
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Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.
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[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.
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That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
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The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.
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If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.
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The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
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Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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