Bill Gates Quotes
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I don’t think people would object if someone pretended to be them to pay their traffic tickets.
Bill Gates
[In 1999] No consumer would stand in line for two hours to get service from private enterprise. Why should a plumber stand in line for two hours at a government office and lose two hours of pay, when by using the Internet he could get his license or pay his fees in a few minutes and be at work on time?
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Deregulation of telecommunications is probably the single greatest step that a country can take to create a digital economy.
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A fighter pilot can’t carry a laptop in flight. It might not stay in his lap while he’s pulling reverse Gs.
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Speed is of the essence in the chain of command. Disseminating orders fast can save a lot of lives.
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The rules of war haven’t changed. The victory goes to the side that can strike the quickest with the best intelligence.
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PCs can empower teachers and students more than any other group of knowledge workers.
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Most teachers have a great love of learning, and they’ll get excited about anything that will help kids learn. What teachers don’t want is to be thrown into something they have not had the opportunity to learn about and become comfortable with.
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[In 1999] The Internet solves the age-old problem of parents asking their children whether they have any homework and being unable to verify the answer then the children invariably say, ‘No.’
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A highly motivated student can learn from difficult reading materials, where a poorly motivated student needs accessible materials such as a video to learn.
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New software is helping students learn regardless of learning style or pace.
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Investments in technology should provide better information to every worker who might possibly use it.
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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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Getting people motivated to take on responsibility is not a question of organizational structure so much as organizational attitude.
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It is impossible to manage a company totally from the center.
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It is impossible for a single person or single committee to stay on top of every issue in every business unit or subsidiary.
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Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world.
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Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.
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Empowerment of employees on the line requires smart machines at their fingertips.
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Economic eras were marked by long periods of stability followed by short periods of industry-wrenching change. Evolutionists would call this phenomenon punctuated equilibrium.
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Businesses have to react quickly to currency changes, new credit risks, and new valuations. Business decisions have to move at the pace of electronic markets.
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Information technology is the only way to have sufficiently quick reflexes connecting business strategy and organizational response.
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Human beings are not the biggest animals. We’re not the strongest or fastest. We’re not the sharpest in sight or smell. It’s amazing how we survived against the many fierce creatures of nature. We survived and prospered because of our brains.
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Our tools and technologies have helped us to shape the environment around us.
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[In 1999] I’d much rather be alive today than at any time in history – and not just because in an earlier age my skill set wouldn’t have been as valuable and I’d have been a prime candidate for some beast’s dinner.
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The tools of the Industrial Age extended the capabilities of our muscles. The tools of the digital age extend the capabilities of our minds.
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Citizens in every culture must engage on the social and political impact of digital technology to ensure that the new digital age reflects the society they want to create.
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Digital tools magnify the abilities that make us unique in the world: the ability to think, the ability to articulate our thoughts, the ability to work together to act on those thoughts.
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If companies empower their employees to solve problems and give them potent tools to do this with, they will always be amazed at how much creativity and initiative will blossom forth.
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A major shift in the computer industry has made end-to-end business solutions much more feasible.
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Horizontal integration makes for high volume and low price.
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The fundamental concept of components is that a programmer can use them without understanding their inner workings.
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Building a digital nervous system requires a well-defined framework for how to organize and roll out the computer hardware and network, how to make or buy applications, and how to operate the system on a daily basis.
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The system will one day be smart enough to arbitrate any conflicts between the new software and the software already on her machine.
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[In 1999] Moving away from the old applications is one of the toughest things for companies to do, but the transition is inevitable.
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The goal is to select projects that achieve the greatest reward in the shortest period of time.
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The successful companies select a few standards and enforce them strictly.
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The financial savings from standardizing on a single infrastructure can be very high.
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Your organization’s computing architecture should be a unifying design that maintains overall integration while enabling incremental change, especially at the departmental level.
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[On people thirty years ago in 1999.] They believed that the primary asset was the hardware and that the software was transitory. History has taught us the opposite. It’s the hardware that goes obsolete first, while software applications stay around seemingly forever…
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