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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
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How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
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It's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, "Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough." It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, "Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it."
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It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
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Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.
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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 irritating.
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If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.
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Gary Kildall was one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution. He was a very creative computer scientist who did excellent work. Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry. His untimely death was very unfortunate and he and his work will be missed.
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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
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We are in the end game, I'm optimistic that we will be successful. I'm personally very committed
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
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The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear:
We cannot maintain a level of one thousand or two thousand cases a year. Either we eradicate polio, or we return to the days of tens of thousands of cases per year. That is no alternative at all. We don't let children die because it is fatiguing to save them. Our commitment as a foundation is to work with partners until no children die from polio.
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Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.
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Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.
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To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.
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Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
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These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
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The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
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Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
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Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
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Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
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When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".
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Bill Gates
Born:
October 28, 1955
(age 68)
Bio:
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest software company.
Known for:
The Road Ahead (1995)
Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999)
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