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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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" If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. "

Bill Gates

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" The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL. "

" If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. "

" I spend a lot of time reading. "

" 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. "

" The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. "

" 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. "

" Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. "

" The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. "

" 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. "

" Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day. "

" 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. "

" I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. "

" Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. "

" Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. "

" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "

" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "

Bill Gates

Planet

Away

" The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. "

" Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. "

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "

" My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. "

" I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. "

" In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. "

" I'm not a macroeconomics person. "

Bill Gates

Person

" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "

" China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. "

" Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally. "

" Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. "