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Gates: Mathematical ability is not the only proxy for talent and IQ
“Somebody who's a good salesperson or a good manager, you know, may not be good at the way I think of IQ. IQ is much more varied. Talent is more varied than I realized. You know, I sort of thought, well, if you can do math, you can do anything. And if you can't…”
Bill Gates: No philanthropic action is completely pure without ego
“You can never do anything that's totally pure. Because if it's really deeply moral, then a little bit, you think, oh, people will praise that.”
Gates: High achievers often have something they are trying to prove
“Often when you see people who are, you know, high achievers, there's some, you know, something they're trying to prove.”
Gates: Being tough on yourself makes you a poor early manager
“And it makes you, at first, maybe not a very good manager, because you tend to manage people like you manage yourself, where you're just so tough on them, and, you know, for me, that meant that in my early days, I could get a lot out of people who were like me…”
Gates: Extreme intelligence often fails to produce family happiness
“The decisions you make about your personal life probably affect your happiness. You know, I know super successful people who aren't that happy and, you know, didn't apply their weren't able to map their incredible intelligence on to having a great relationship…”
Gates: Unlike the PC era, the AI revolution is widely anticipated
“The insight that computing would become free You know, for my generation, there were very few people who saw that. And so I, you know, I had an advantage because that implied a lot of things that, that Microsoft could get out and in front of. Now this current …”
Gates: Providing basic needs is the government's job, not philanthropy's
“The basic needs of the people, the safety net, that's not really the role of philanthropy, because you need to count on that year in and year out, and the government, you know, through the political process needs to decide that.”
Gates: Many Top Government Programs Originated as Philanthropist-Funded Pilots
“A lot of the best government programs, if you look into them, some philanthropists funded the pilot, you know, brought together talented people, and often you're using them Same skills that you cause you to be able to be successful and now using it on behalf o…”