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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. "
Bill Gates
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Children
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" It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. "
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" 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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" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "
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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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" The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. "
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" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "
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" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "
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" Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. "
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" In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. "
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" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "
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" A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different. "
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" I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. "
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" 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before. "
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" Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. "
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" 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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" I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. "
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" By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "
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" Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want. "
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" 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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" Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. "
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" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "
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" Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. "
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" The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate. "
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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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" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
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" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "
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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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" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "
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