Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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Bill Gates
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About Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person in their The World's Billionaires list…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Bill GatesI 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…
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 t…
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
I spend a lot of time reading.
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.
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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 f…
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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.
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.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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…
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
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.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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.
Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
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.
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.