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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. "
Bill Gates
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" Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. "
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" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
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" People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. "
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" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "
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" The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing. "
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" I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. "
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" 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. "
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" Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. "
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" Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. "
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" There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. "
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" We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. "
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" Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. "
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" 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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" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. "
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" 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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" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "
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" The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. "
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" Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. "
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" I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. "
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" Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. "
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" Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue. "
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" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "
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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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" I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. "
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" I'm a geek. "
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" Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things. "
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" China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. "
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" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "
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