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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
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If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
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I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
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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.
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Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.
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Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.
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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
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If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
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Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
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Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
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Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act
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In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.
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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
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