Tag: Bill Gates
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Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Bill Gates
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I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
Bill Gates
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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.
Bill Gates
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Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates
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In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
Bill Gates
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Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
Bill Gates
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If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
Bill Gates
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Philanthropy should be voluntary.
Bill Gates
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Common Core is a big win for education.
Bill Gates
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
Bill Gates