"When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it."
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"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
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"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
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"Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference."
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"Microsoft is a company that manages imagination."
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"The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software."
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"At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level."
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"Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."
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"The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged."
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"A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts."
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"The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important."
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"In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years."
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"Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day."
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"The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful."
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"Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence"
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"As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today."
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"Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for."
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"If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work."
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"People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works."
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"By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while."
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