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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
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I am results-oriented.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
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Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.
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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
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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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(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
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