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" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "

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" I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. "

" Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. "

" 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. "

" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "

" 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. "

" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "

" 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. "

" Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. "

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" 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before. "

" It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. "

" Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. "

" The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. "

" What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. "

" Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. "

" DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. "

" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "

" Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. "

" The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. "

" People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then. "

" The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. "

" The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. "

" Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. "

" I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. "

" In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. "

" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "

" Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. "

" 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. "

" Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. "

" We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. "

" Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. "