Bill Gates
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“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.” -Bill Gates
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“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.” -Bill Gates
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“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.” -Bill Gates
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“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” -Bill Gates
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“Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.” -Bill Gates
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“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.” -Bill Gates
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“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.” -Bill Gates
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“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” -Bill Gates
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“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” -Bill Gates
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“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.” -Bill Gates
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“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” -Bill Gates
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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” -Bill Gates
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“I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.” -Bill Gates
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“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.” -Bill Gates
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“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” -Bill Gates
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“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.” -Bill Gates
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“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” -Bill Gates
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“If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.” -Bill Gates
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“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” -Bill Gates
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“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” -Bill Gates
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“DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.” -Bill Gates
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“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” -Bill Gates
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“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.” -Bill Gates
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“The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.” -Bill Gates
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“Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.” -Bill Gates
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“It’s really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.” -Bill Gates
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“Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.” -Bill Gates
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“I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” -Bill Gates
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“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” -Bill Gates
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“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.” -Bill Gates
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“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.” -Bill Gates
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