“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
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Bill Gates
“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
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Bill Gates
“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”
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Bill Gates
“Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
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Bill Gates
“The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”
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Bill Gates
“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”
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Bill Gates
“Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.”
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Bill Gates
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
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Bill Gates
“if u are born poor then it's not your mistake but if u die poor then it is your mistake”
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Bill Gates
“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
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Bill Gates
“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 exciting.”
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Bill Gates
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
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Bill Gates
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
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Bill Gates
“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
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Bill Gates