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" I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it. "
Bill Gates
Way
Volunteer
People
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" Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. "
Bill Gates
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Down
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" Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. "
Bill Gates
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Education
Health
" In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. "
Bill Gates
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" Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. "
Bill Gates
Working Together
Teacher
Technology
" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "
Bill Gates
Mom
Interesting
Very
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Son
Chance
Interesting
" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "
Bill Gates
Get
Government
Netscape
" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. "
Bill Gates
Learning
Unhappy
Greatest
" We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. "
Bill Gates
Capitalism
Well
Way
" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "
Bill Gates
Compassion
Our
Human
" Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. "
Bill Gates
Even
Music
You
" There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively. "
Bill Gates
More
Europe
Other
" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "
Bill Gates
Incredible
AIDS
Stigma
" If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. "
Bill Gates
You
Trouble
Real
" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "
Bill Gates
Attention
People
Week
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Last
Time
World
" Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another. "
Bill Gates
Way
Very
Things
" For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. "
Bill Gates
Enough
Good
Internet
" 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. "
Bill Gates
World
History
Worst
" Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. "
Bill Gates
Participation
Community
Poor
" There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure. "
Bill Gates
Frame
Change
Time
" Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. "
Bill Gates
Software
Support
Problem
" I am results-oriented. "
Bill Gates
I Am
Am
" 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? "
Bill Gates
Government
Be Different
Me
" This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places. "
Bill Gates
You
Crazy
Places
" Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people. "
Bill Gates
Mean
Information
Touch
" 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. "
Bill Gates
You
Leader
Know
" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "
Bill Gates
Open
Obscure
Nice
" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "
Bill Gates
Government
You
Doing
" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "
Bill Gates
Poor
Left
Will