- Nov 07, 2020
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- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Efficiency
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
- Knew
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People everywhere love Windows.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
- Interferes
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- Nov 07, 2020
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Computer Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids are a big part of my schedule.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time reading.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
- Developed Countries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
- New Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
- Countries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Estate Tax
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a geek.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020