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

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

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

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.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam — those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

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

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change — as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.