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" If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? "
Bill Gates
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" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "
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Education
People
School
" I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. "
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Cool
Through
Tests
" I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. "
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Digital
Think
" I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies. "
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Myself
" Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. "
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Today
People
" Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. "
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Creative
Computers
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" If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. "
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Make
You
" 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. "
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Now
Down
Changes
" I spend a lot of time reading. "
Bill Gates
Lot
Reading
Spend
" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "
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Post
Expensive
Getting
" Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. "
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Even
Music
You
" 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. "
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Frame
Change
Time
" I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. "
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Excellent
Memory
Most
" People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. "
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Change
Time
Fear
" The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. "
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Hit
Burning
Today
" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "
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Compassion
Our
Human
" The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. "
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You
Want
Use
" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "
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Business
Will
Technology
" We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. "
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Behavior
Put
Lot
" The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. "
Bill Gates
People
Support
Impressive
" 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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Strange
Want
Dreams
" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "
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Open
Obscure
Nice
" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "
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Kind
Business
Creativity
" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. "
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Learning
Unhappy
Greatest
" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "
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People
Difficult
Change
" Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. "
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Me
Popular
Us
" You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. "
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Rigid
You
View
" I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock. "
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Going
Lot
Microsoft
" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "
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Planet
Away
More
" At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. "
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Come
Afraid
Ideas