“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
“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
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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
“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”
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Bill Gates
“I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it”
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Bill Gates
“The vision is 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
“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
“Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy”
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Bill Gates
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
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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
“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.”
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Bill Gates
“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
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Bill Gates
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
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Bill Gates
“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...”
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Bill Gates
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
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Bill Gates
