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Bill Gates
American
Businessman
Born:
Oct 28
,
1955
People
Think
Time
Will
World
You
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Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
Bill Gates
Education
Teacher
Best
Great
You
Achievement
School
Half
Important
Research
Possible
Variation
More
Only
Classrooms
Student
Between
Great Teacher
Schools
Him
Than
Child
Get
Same
Want
Much
Your
Your Child
Shows
Among
Assigned
Actually
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
Technology
Business
Will
First
Automation
Rule
Magnify
Operation
Inefficiency
Inefficient
Efficiency
Efficient
Any
Used
Second
Applied
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Bill Gates
Day
Thanksgiving
You
Charity
Black
Giving
Monday
Pretty
About
Take
Idea
Know
Another
Another Day
Heard
Friday
Donate
May
Tuesday
Want
After
Break
Might
Straightforward
Cyber
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
Teacher
Technology
Working Together
Together
Important
Tool
Kids
Most
Terms
Motivating
Getting
Just
The Most Important
Them
Working
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates
Internet
Tomorrow
Town
Global
Global Village
Becoming
Square
Village
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates
Good
You
Look
Make
Least
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
Technology
Business
Think
Other
Interwoven
About
Talk
Talking
Without
Becoming
Inextricably
Anybody
Information
Information Technology
Meaningfully
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
Change
Yourself
Will
Ten
Underestimate
Overestimate
Always
Occur
Years
Inaction
Next
Lulled
Two
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
Bill Gates
Tough
Minorities
Layers
Make
Lot
Up
Leg
Discrimination
Get
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Bill Gates
Needs
You
Matter
Everyone
Gymnast
Tennis
Tennis Player
Whether
Coach
Bridge
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
Bill Gates
Today
History
People
World
Flu
Faster
Pandemic
Worst
Would
Tens
Tens Of Millions
How
Spread
Modern
Modern History
Interconnected
Which
Spanish
Millions
Millions Of People
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
Communication
Creativity
Become
Think
Tool
Tools
Say
Shaped
Computers
Fair
Most
Empowering
Personal
Created
User
Ever
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Bill Gates
Capitalism
Welcome
Well
Korea
Very
North
North Korea
Move
Anyone
Wants
Worked
Who
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.
Bill Gates
Future
You
Creative
Creativity
People
Past
Stars
Took
Take
Know
Make
Sort
Knows
Rock
Still
Rock Stars
Exist
Maybe
Want
In The Past
Place
Much
Certain
Certain Level
Incentives
Who
Creative People
Level
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
Bill Gates
Government
Immigration
Our
Say
Immigrants
Bad
Immigration Laws
Laws
Name
Greatest
Done
Really
Injustices
Treatment
The future of advertising is the Internet.
Bill Gates
Future
Internet
Advertising
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Bill Gates
Life
You
Technology
Everyday Life
Everyday
Advance
Part
Making
Fit
Really
Notice
Even
Based
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
Bill Gates
Environmental
Needs
Change
Problem
Solved
Absolutely
Terrible
Climate
Priority
Climate Change
Huge
Deserves
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
Bill Gates
Education
You
Competition
Long
System
Run
Indicator
Long Run
Main
Leading
Well
How
Doing
Years
Going
Human
Where
Capital
Your
Base
Now
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates
Time
Business
Change
World
Entering
More
Because
Years
Than
Going
Fantastic
Next
Business World
Last
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
Time
Ignorance
Change
People
Fear
Will
Silicon
Feared
Invented
Leads
Come
Accept
Masters
Always
Time People
Coal
Engines
Electricity
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.
Bill Gates
Time
Good
Bitcoin
Digital
Believe
Think
I Think
Way
Some
About
Good Way
Leads
Over
Abuse
Involved
Anonymous
Mostly
Doing
Go
Huge
Currency
Transactions
Basis
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
Bill Gates
News
You
Way
Bad
Bad News
Mislead
Headline
Headlines
Because
Improvement
Gradual
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
Bill Gates
Age
World
Young
Young Age
Realities
Exposure
Thing
I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.
Bill Gates
People
Every
Other
Way
Volunteer
Like
Dishes
Every Night
Night
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
Bill Gates
Needs
Innovation
People
Feedback
Sit
Down
Every
Other
Software
Collaborate
Kind
Ability
Share
Almost
Like
Ideas
Talk
Understand
Get
Customers
Requires
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