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Bill Gates

Born: October 28, 1955

Nationality: American

Occupation: Businessman

Biography: William Henry Bill Gates III is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.

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Bill Gates

“Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.”

- Bill Gates

Source/Notes: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

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Bill Gates

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

- Bill Gates

Source/Notes: As quoted in "In the Eye of the Storm: Reengineering Corporate Culture" (Leadership Press, 1995) by John R. Childress, p. 134

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Bill Gates

“At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.”

- Bill Gates

Source/Notes: Interview published in BBC (website): news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm

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Bill Gates

“DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.”

- Bill Gates

Source/Notes: Attributed. There is a similar quotation by Weinstein, published in "Multimedia World, Volume 2, Issues 6-12" (1995): "DOS is ugly, and if we can shield a person from it we can have better installs"

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Bill Gates

“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.”

- Bill Gates

Source/Notes: Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003

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Bill Gates

“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”

- Bill Gates

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Bill Gates

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

- Bill Gates

Source/Notes: As quoted in: PC Magazine, 23 June 2008

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Bill Gates

“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

Source/Notes: Speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, February 24, 2004

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Bill Gates

“I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.”

- Bill Gates

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Bill Gates

“I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.”

- Bill Gates

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Bill Gates

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.”

- Bill Gates

Source/Notes: Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur (1998 edition), John Wiley & Sons - ISBN: 9780471293538

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Bill Gates

“If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?”

- Bill Gates

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Bill Gates

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”

- Bill Gates

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Bill Gates

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.”

- Bill Gates

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