Taken Quotes by Bill Gates

10 Taken quotes by Bill Gates

From a tech titan's viewpoint, being taken can mean anything from market pressure to personal focus. This short collection shows Gates' pragmatic take on regaining agency.

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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth…

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I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

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Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be…

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If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the…

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Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with…

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I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain…

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Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the…

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As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very…

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In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition…

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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth…

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

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

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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.…

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

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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…

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

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Software is more important than hardware.

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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.

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