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" Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. "
Bill Gates
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Long-Term
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" The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. "
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" There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. "
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" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "
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" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "
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" Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. "
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" If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. "
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" 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. "
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" The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. "
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" When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. "
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" 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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" 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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" I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. "
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" For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria. "
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You
" Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. "
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" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "
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" Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. "
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" The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny. "
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" 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. "
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" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "
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You
" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "
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" Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. "
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" It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' "
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" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "
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" I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. "
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" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "
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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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" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "
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" Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. "
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" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
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