"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
-Bill Gates
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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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"I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV."
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"Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them."
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"Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over."
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"I spend a lot of time reading."
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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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