Bill Gates Quotes - Page 36

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• We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Years, Data

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Government, Effort

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.

  Bill Gates

  Hero, Class, People

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Our leadership [in Microsoft ] has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, People, Microsoft

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Kids, Together

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Believe, Fighting

  "Why the Global Fund Is a Terrific Investment" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

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• [Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

  Bill Gates

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Microsoft

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• If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

  Bill Gates

  Optimism, Empathy, Secret

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• Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

  Bill Gates

  Drug, Surveillance, Information

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Book, Ideas

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• I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, World, Dramatic

  "A Q&A with Bill Gates". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Media, Choices, Information

  Transcript–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5, allthingsd.com. May 31, 2007.

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• For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Moving Forward, Malaria

  "Why Bill Gates Fights Diseases Abroad, Not At Home". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 24, 2014.

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• I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

  Bill Gates

  People, Language, Five

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• I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

  Bill Gates

  Microsoft, Satisfied, Products

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• Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

  Bill Gates

  Piano, Singing, Quality

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• Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

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  Want, Not Sure

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

  Bill Gates

  War, Fall, Hands

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• There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

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  Years, Energy, Batteries

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• In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Childhood, Next

  "Davos 2013: day two - as it happened". www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I believe in generous aid policies.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Aids, Policy

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Smart, Kids

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, People, Empowering

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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