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Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
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I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.
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We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced.
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I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
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'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.
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There are several hundred people who stayed in the Ebola-affected countries and continued to do the work, put themselves at great risk because medical workers are the most likely to be infected because they're helping out when the person's health is deteriorating, including quite a bit of bleeding as they're getting very, very sick.
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At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.
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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
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When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision.
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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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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.
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
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I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
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Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
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Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
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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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Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
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