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" Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. "

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" 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

" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "

" I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett. "

" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "

" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "

" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "

" The future of advertising is the Internet. "

" Eventually, all companies are replaced. "

" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "

" Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. "

" The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn. "

" Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime. "

Bill Gates

Course

Lifetime

" You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. "

" We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should. "

" When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. "

" The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL. "

" 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. "

" If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day. "

" Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career. "

" I don't generally read a lot of fiction. "

" 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before. "

" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "

" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "

Bill Gates

Government

Be Different

" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "

Bill Gates

Back

High

" Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. "

Bill Gates

Brazil

Biggest

" The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. "

" Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. "

" I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. "

" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "

" I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. "

Bill Gates

Never

Farmer