{"author":"Bill Gates","author_id":"Bill+Gates","total_quotes":105,"quotes":[{"text":"Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["focus","people","right "],"id":1962,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["time","help","foundation "],"id":14658,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["people","new","create "],"id":20685,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["time","world","people "],"id":28617,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["nature","human","system "],"id":30412,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["great","me","people "],"id":37508,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["education","government "],"id":44794,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["time","creativity","focus "],"id":61513,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["agnosticism","belief","science","scientific","why"],"id":64189,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"},{"text":"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.","author":"Bill Gates","tags":["inspirational"],"id":65829,"author_id":"Bill+Gates"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":105,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}