American - Businessman | October 28, 1955 -
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates
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There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.
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There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.
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When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
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I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
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Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
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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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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
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I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
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