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Innovation Quotes by Bill Gates

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Bill Gates talks about building software that keeps improving, and about inventions like new ways to generate electricity that could change everyday life. He stresses that innovation should reach many people, that organizations need clear messages and flat structures, and that protests can act as a powerful democratic tool. Gates also notes scientific breakthroughs such as easier prime factoring, and warns that isolationist trends can hurt cooperation.

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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

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A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

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My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set…

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Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

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If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our…

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The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

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I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future.

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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

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Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation,…

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I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to…

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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to…

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Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way…

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I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go…

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Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to…

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But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs…

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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…

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These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research,…

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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…

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With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting…

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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't…

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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…

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My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy…

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We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for…

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Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because…

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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

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Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

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I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future.…

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Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

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There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

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People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for…

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You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of…

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The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return…

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During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If…

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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate…

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all.…

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a…

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to…

Software is more important than hardware.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.