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" It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' "
Bill Gates
Done
Wish
Say
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" People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. "
Bill Gates
Great
Saying
Place
" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "
Bill Gates
Government
You
Doing
" 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
" Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. "
Bill Gates
Like
Being
Go
" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "
Bill Gates
Speak
Will
Up
" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "
Bill Gates
Business
Will
Technology
" Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about. "
Bill Gates
Time
World
Soccer
" We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. "
Bill Gates
Who
Students
Teach
" The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. "
Bill Gates
AIDS
Vaccine
Percent
" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "
Bill Gates
I Can
Understand
Meaningful
" Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. "
Bill Gates
Few
Innovation
Improving
" China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. "
Bill Gates
1980s
System
Poverty
" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "
Bill Gates
Poor
Left
Will
" I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. "
Bill Gates
Focus
Children
Thinking
" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "
Bill Gates
Know
Five
Language
" 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
" 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
" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "
Bill Gates
Future
Poor
Sustainable
" Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things. "
Bill Gates
Focus
People
Right
" Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. "
Bill Gates
Better
Than
Safety
" Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. "
Bill Gates
Me
Popular
Us
" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "
Bill Gates
People
Most
Poor
" The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. "
Bill Gates
Innovation
Better
Progress
" What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' "
Bill Gates
College
End
America
" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "
Bill Gates
Hands
War
Dictators
" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "
Bill Gates
Hard
Public Education
Education
" It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. "
Bill Gates
Success
Failure
Celebrate
" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. "
Bill Gates
Learning
Unhappy
Greatest
" I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. "
Bill Gates
People
Communication
Great
" 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