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" I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett. "
Bill Gates
Statement
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" DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. "
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" The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. "
Bill Gates
Africa
Adapt
Three
" I don't generally read a lot of fiction. "
Bill Gates
Lot
Fiction
Read
" For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. "
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Good
Internet
" Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. "
Bill Gates
Open
Done
Free
" You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. "
Bill Gates
Rigid
You
View
" Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. "
Bill Gates
Now
Generation
Used
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
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Way
Money
Government
" 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
" If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. "
Bill Gates
Healthy
Eat
Never
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Government
Perfect
Truth
" The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. "
Bill Gates
Events
Two
Three
" You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. "
Bill Gates
Us
World
You
" Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want. "
Bill Gates
Research
You
Camera
" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "
Bill Gates
Incredible
AIDS
Stigma
" Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. "
Bill Gates
Like
Being
Go
" 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
Car
Up
Technology
" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "
Bill Gates
Parents
Life
Name
" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "
Bill Gates
Watch
Now
Than
" I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. "
Bill Gates
Doing
Digital
Think
" The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. "
Bill Gates
Think
Amazing
Social Media
" 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
Thought
Giving
You
" I don't think culture is something you can describe. "
Bill Gates
You
Describe
Think
" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "
Bill Gates
Buy
Customers
Who
" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "
Bill Gates
Stupid Thing
Want
Legacy
" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "
Bill Gates
World
History
Worst
" 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
" Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue. "
Bill Gates
Revenue
Actually
Bit
" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "
Bill Gates
Responsibility
Support
Bear
" I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. "
Bill Gates
Better
War
Time