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" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
Bill Gates
Philosophy
Having
Good
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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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" My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria. "
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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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" Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. "
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" You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well. "
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Everything
Always
" I'm a geek. "
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" In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. "
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Early
Good
" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "
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" The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. "
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Even
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" Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. "
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" I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has. "
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Think
Positive
Country
" Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. "
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Attention
Positive
You
" 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. "
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Need
Long-Term
Development
" I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it. "
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Christmas
Like
People
" There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. "
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Difference
Technology
Enable
" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "
Bill Gates
I Can
Understand
Meaningful
" I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. "
Bill Gates
Writing
Ideas
Flying
" It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. "
Bill Gates
Change
Disappear
Nobody
" Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. "
Bill Gates
Now
Generation
Used
" It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down. "
Bill Gates
Before
Down
Things
" The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. "
Bill Gates
Which
Days
Behind
" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "
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Watch
Now
Than
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Education
Teacher
Best
" The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. "
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Understand
Life
My Life
" Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. "
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Time
Skill
End
" 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. "
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You
Leader
Know
" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "
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Compassion
Our
Human
" 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
" We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. "
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Capitalism
Well
Way
" 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
Capitalism
Care