Bill Gates Quotes - Page 22

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• On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.

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  Years, Names, Innovation

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

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  Names, Trying, Research

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

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  Teacher, Children, Thoughtful

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• Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

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  Support, Understanding, Levels

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

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  Years, Names, Parent

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• This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.

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  Technology, Thinking, Profound

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

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  Cancer, Thinking, Starting Up

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

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  Needs, Arguing, Should

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• The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

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  Song, Kids, Tease

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

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  Country, Gmos, Income

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• I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

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  Focus, Use, Calendars

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• Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

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  India, Needs, Taxation

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• Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

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  Government, Risk, Way

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.

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  Thinking, Worry, Becoming

  Source: thesource.com

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• We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

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  Beach, Art, Sunset

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• The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

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  People, Investing, World

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• The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

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  Science, Years, Ideas

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• The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

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  Government, People, Giving

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• So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic.

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  Years, Energy, Gone

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

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  Educational, People, Focus

  "Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference". voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

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• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

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  Funny, Success, Business

  "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2003.

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• I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

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  Watches, Used, Spots

  "Exclusive: A Chat with Bill Gates". Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. February 14, 2003.

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• I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

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  Magic, World, Problem

  "Bill Gates: here's my plan to improve our world - and how you can help". www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

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  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.

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  Jobs, Memories, Writing

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