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Bill Gates Quotes (85 quotes)
 | “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 |
| Source/Notes: As quoted in "In the Eye of the Storm: Reengineering Corporate Culture" (Leadership Press, 1995) by John R. Childress, p. 134 |
| “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 |
| 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" |
| “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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| “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 |
| “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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| “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
Born: October 28, 1955 (age 63)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Businessman
Bio: 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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