Bill Gates’ Life Changing Quotes | Quotes About Life

[Music] if you have 50 different plug types appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive but once an electric outlet becomes standardized many companies can design appliances and competition in shoes creating variety and better prices for consumers skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue 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 the worst pandemic in modern history was the spanish flu of 1918 which killed tens of millions of people today with how interconnected the world is it would spread faster 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 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 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 life is not fear get used to it life is not divided into sinisters you don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself well no one gives aid to zimbabwe through the mugabe government i have an excellent memory a most excellent memory everyone needs a coach it doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player a tennis player a gymnast or a bridge player [Music] when you want to do your homework fill out your tax return or see all the choices for a trip you want to take you need a full-size screen 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 the nuclear approach i'm involved in is called the traveling wave reactor which uses which uranium for fuel there's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true many decades of building demo plans proving the economics are right but if it does you could have cheaper energy with no co2 emissions when the pc was launched people knew it was important bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions and i don't think over time that's a good way to go i'm a huge belief in digital currency but doing it on an anonymous basis i think that leads to some abuses so i'm not involved in bitcoin i have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition the most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity cost they do this by getting onto other types of land or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today or by intercropping missiles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations kids will start dying of measles [Music] 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 this security problems then people will hold back should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets my personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing in the case of london petty crime has gone down they catch terrorists because of it and if something really bad happens most of the time you can figure out who did it in america math classes we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years in the asian system they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years 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 if you think your teacher is tough wait until you get a boss it doesn't have tenure helping conveying global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable 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 be nice to nerds chances are you'll end up working for one we're in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy if your culture doesn't like geeks you are in real trouble historically privacy was almost implicit because it was hard to find and gather information but in the digital world whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on we need to have more explicit rules not just for government but for private companies 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 we all need people who would give us feedback that's how we improve legacy is a stupid thing i don't want a legacy if i would have some set idea of a finish line don't you think i would have crossed it years ago like almost everyone who uses email 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 it's a nice reader but there's nothing on the ipad i look at and say oh i wish microsoft had done it i believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act television is not real life in real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs 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 is 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 whether it's google or apple or free software we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes the internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow in this business by the time you realize you're in trouble it's too late to save yourself unless you are running scared all the time you're gone we are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the pc can be lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high quality concerts you may have heard of black friday and cyber monday there is another day you might want to know about giving tuesday the idea is pretty straightforward on the tuesday after thanksgiving shoppers take a break from their gift bind and donate what they can to charity intellectual property has to shelf life of a banana we always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10 don't let yourself be lulled into inaction the u.s couldn't even get rid of saddam hussein and 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