Bill Gates quotes page 1

born October 28, 1955, American business magnate, chairman of Microsoft

Life is not fair; get used to it.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top -
I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
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You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be
programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
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I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are
my employees.
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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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.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
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In this business, by the time you realise you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself.
Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do
in ten years.
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It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure
going well for me, I must admit.
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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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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would
want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
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It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there
is no shortage of things to do.
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If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will
develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have
expected.
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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.
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Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have
other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where
you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong.
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go
to jobs.
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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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.
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Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the
PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does
not please Windows.
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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.
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