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" I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. "
Bill Gates
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" China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. "
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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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" 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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" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "
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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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" China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario. "
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" If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. "
Bill Gates
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Make
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" Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. "
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Hear
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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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" One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' "
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" The microprocessor is a miracle. "
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" The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. "
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Square
Tomorrow
Village
" Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.' "
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Every Day
Feel
" In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. "
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Over
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" Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. "
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Open
Done
Free
" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "
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Stupid Thing
Want
Legacy
" 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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Door
Creating
Day
" The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. "
Bill Gates
Absolutely
Best
Quality
" I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. "
Bill Gates
Lucky
Belief
Moral
" The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. "
Bill Gates
Truth
Think
Software
" The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. "
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Important
Think
Idea
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Religion
People
Need
" The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. "
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Long
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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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" Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. "
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Feel
" I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. "
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Measurement
Human
Improving
" The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' "
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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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" Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems. "
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" If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day. "
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