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" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "
Bill Gates
Door
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" The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. "
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" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "
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" Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism. "
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" The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. "
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" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "
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" In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. "
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" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "
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" I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. "
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" China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. "
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" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "
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" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "
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" If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. "
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" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "
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" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "
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" Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. "
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" Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. "
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" Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. "
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" If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. "
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" I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. "
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" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "
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" 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. "
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