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" Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people. "
Bill Gates
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Information
Touch
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" Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. "
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" I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. "
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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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" You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. "
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" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "
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New Things
Great
Tough
" 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. "
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" I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. "
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Doing
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Think
" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "
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Software
" People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. "
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People
Want
" The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. "
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Plants
Dream
Energy
" Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. "
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Broken
Care
Down
" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "
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Innovation
Microsoft
" With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case. "
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You
Leader
Know
" Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. "
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Apple
Search
Job
" Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. "
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Pretty
Like
Way
" Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. "
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Well
Like
Product
" If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? "
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Line
Finish
Finish Line
" With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents. "
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Gain
Windows
Trying
" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "
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Case
Progressive
Taxes
" If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. "
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Food
You
Agriculture
" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "
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Know
Five
Language
" Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. "
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Impact
Important
New
" Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin. "
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Think
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" Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.' "
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Every Day
Feel
" The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. "
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Events
Two
Three
" Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. "
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Even
Music
You
" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "
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Stupid Thing
Want
Legacy
" If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. "
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Real
" Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card. "
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Business
Want