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Business
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
-Bill Gates
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Computers
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
-Bill Gates
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
-Bill Gates
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Efficiency
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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.
-Bill Gates
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Intuition
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Often you have to rely on intuition.
-Bill Gates
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Learning
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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
-Bill Gates
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Mistakes
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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed
-Bill Gates
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Religion
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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.
-Bill Gates, Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
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Success & Failure
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
-Bill Gates
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Books by and about Bill Gates