Bill Gates

Bill Gates

"Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to."
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"Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to."
Bill Gates
"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."
Bill Gates
"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?"
Bill Gates
"My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go."
Bill Gates
"My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people."
Bill Gates
"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
Bill Gates
"Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set."
Bill Gates
"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
"Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students."
Bill Gates
"Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings."
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."
Bill Gates
"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
Bill Gates
"The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking."
Bill Gates
"To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard."
Bill Gates
"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
"If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers."
Bill Gates
"The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years."
Bill Gates
"The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk."
Bill Gates
"Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way."
Bill Gates
"I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has."
Bill Gates
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