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Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHIN.

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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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.

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When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

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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.

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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.

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To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

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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.

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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.

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The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

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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.

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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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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.

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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

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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.

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People everywhere love Windows.

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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.

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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

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Often you have to rely on intuition.

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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.

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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

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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 exciting.

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Life is not fair; get used to it.

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Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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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.

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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.

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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

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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.

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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.

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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

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I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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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.

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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

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Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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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.

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

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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.

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640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

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