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" Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. "
Bill Gates
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" When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. "
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" It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. "
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" Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft. "
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" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "
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" Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. "
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" The future of advertising is the Internet. "
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" 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. "
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" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "
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" India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot. "
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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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" Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. "
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" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
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" The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. "
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Talk
AIDS
" One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' "
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Better
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" Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. "
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Good
You
" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
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Having
Good
" K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. "
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Parents
Babysitting
Things
" The kids are a big part of my schedule. "
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Big
Kids
Part
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Plants
Dream
Energy
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Lucky
Belief
Moral
" 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. "
Bill Gates
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Students
Teach
" Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. "
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Few
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Improving
" 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. "
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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. "
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" It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. "
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" Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. "
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Like
Way
" 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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" 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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" Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. "
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Health