Bill Gates

Bill Gates

"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."
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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."
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"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
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"In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not..."
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"I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill."
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"The future of advertising is the Internet."
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"People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to."
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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."
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"OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known."
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"When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that."
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"People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then."
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"Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."
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"By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while."
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"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."
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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."
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"In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success."
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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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"Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another."
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"When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so."
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"In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system."
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