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Bill Gates
American
Businessman
Born:
Oct 28
,
1955
People
Think
Time
Will
World
You
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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
Bill Gates
Technology
Business
Between
Practices
Enable
Enables
Historical
Difference
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.
Bill Gates
Challenges
Will
Rich
Pay
Other
Slightly
Cost
More
Clear
Demands
Look
Deal
Revenue
Quite
Order
Medical
Raise
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
Bill Gates
Rich
Countries
Afford
Rich Countries
Things
Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
Bill Gates
Problems
Approach
Our
Solving
See
More
Take
Leaders
Like
Biggest
Personally
India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
Bill Gates
World
Kids
India
Born
Percent
Over
Around
Lot
Move
If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
Bill Gates
Money
Else
Given
More
Had
Than
Anyone
Anyone Else
Planet
Away
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill Gates
Democracy
Capitalism
Innovation
Wonderful
World
Think
State
Tools
I Think
Secrets
Those
Hidden
Bad
Powerful
Developments
New
Along
Powerful Thing
Well
Empowered
Scientific
Built
Very
Modern
Anymore
Modern World
Mechanism
Thing
Things
Basically
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
Bill Gates
Good
People
Deficit
Way
Rate
More
Highest
Like
Close
Discussion
Maybe
Want
Gains
Taxed
Capital
Capital Gains
Help
Income
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
Bill Gates
You
Architecture
Communicate
Software
Aim
Everything
Systems
Thread
Components
Having
Taking
Idea
Protocol
Does
Common
Capabilities
Mean
Them
Ask
Means
Standard
Using
Eventually, all companies are replaced.
Bill Gates
Replaced
Companies
Eventually
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
Bill Gates
Truth
Government
You
Internet
Websites
Extremely
About
Perfect
Never
Block
Blocking
Get
Any
Anything
Wants
Hard
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
Bill Gates
World
Will
Something
Doing
Lot
Improve
Dependent
Different
Really
Fortunately
Washington
Things
Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
Bill Gates
You
Money
Before
Other
Back
Magic
Case
Give
Could
Glad
Takes
Been
Up
Close
Get
Did
Goes
Where
Either
Which
Special
Activity
Credibility
Zero
Wasted
Things
Applied
Number
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Bill Gates
Important
Rich
Think
I Think
General
Idea
Poor
Helping
The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Bill Gates
Best
Relative
Definition
Purely
Only
Days
America
Behind
Which
Basis
People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
Bill Gates
People
TV
Windows
More
Than
Using
Now
Watch
I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.
Bill Gates
Retain
Lot
Stock
Going
Microsoft
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
Bill Gates
Threshold
Petty
Crimes
Those
Possession
Easy
Minor
Higher
Like
Questions
Surveillance
Information
Certain
Should
Usable
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
Bill Gates
Day
Single
Every
Mac
Machine
Out
Security
Total
Totally
Guys
Taken
Over
Come
Single Day
Break
Exploit
Your
Every Single Day
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
Bill Gates
Kind
Impatient
Very
Person
Twenties
Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
Bill Gates
Strong
Windows
Share
Certainly
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
Bill Gates
You
Complicated
Bit
Share
Devices
Always
Been
Whenever
Want
Information
Multiple
Including
It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
Bill Gates
Change
People
Will
See
Some
Tropical
Disappear
Nobody
Ecosystems
Well
Climate
Climate Change
Hit
Get
Wants
Which
Poorer
Really
Who
Zone
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
Bill Gates
Library
Amazing
Computer
Amazing Thing
Whole
Thing
Phenomenon
The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
Bill Gates
Best
Quality
Research
Absolutely
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
Bill Gates
Great
Programs
Systems
Run
Some
Countries
Terrible
Very
Poor
Poor Countries
Richer
Vaccination
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