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" I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time. "
Bill Gates
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Used
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" In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively. "
Bill Gates
Work
People
Use
" I don't generally read a lot of fiction. "
Bill Gates
Lot
Fiction
Read
" Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. "
Bill Gates
Time
Reading
Digital
" The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. "
Bill Gates
Plants
Dream
Energy
" With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case. "
Bill Gates
You
Leader
Know
" The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. "
Bill Gates
Long
Successful
Been
" India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot. "
Bill Gates
World
Move
Born
" Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. "
Bill Gates
Focused
Global
Goals
" Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. "
Bill Gates
Number
Back
Magic
" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "
Bill Gates
Nothing
Because
Company
" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
Bill Gates
Truth
Believe
Expectations
" In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. "
Bill Gates
Book
People
Home
" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "
Bill Gates
Think
Super
Religion
" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "
Bill Gates
Always
You
Want
" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "
Bill Gates
You
Information
Rules
" Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. "
Bill Gates
Brazil
Like
Biggest
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Me
Possible
Know
" I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. "
Bill Gates
Excellent
Memory
Most
" In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. "
Bill Gates
Color
Terms
Success
" Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. "
Bill Gates
Participation
Community
Poor
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Parents
Growing Up
Volunteer
" I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. "
Bill Gates
Believe
Think
God
" I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. "
Bill Gates
Lucky
Belief
Moral
" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "
Bill Gates
Smallpox
Money
About
" The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. "
Bill Gates
Important
Think
Idea
" In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it. "
Bill Gates
Right
Science
Good
" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "
Bill Gates
Back
You
Three
" People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. "
Bill Gates
Learn
People
Want
" I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. "
Bill Gates
Very
Twenties
Person
" 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. "
Bill Gates
New Things
Think
Sales