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" If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. "
Bill Gates
You
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Real
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" I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. "
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" 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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" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "
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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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" SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail. "
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Idea
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" Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. "
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" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "
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Education
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" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "
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" When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. "
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" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "
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You
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" I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it. "
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People
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
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Way
Money
Government
" Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. "
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Life
Problems
Research
" Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. "
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Easy
Questions
Petty
" 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 think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. "
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Elderly
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Think
" U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market. "
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Look
Competitive
United States
" 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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World
Intelligence
Government
" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "
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Think
Super
Religion
" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "
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Got
Relationship
Interesting
" 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
" Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. "
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Afford
Rich
Countries
" Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs. "
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Sit
People
Innovation
" Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. "
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Today
Need
" 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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Popular
Us
" I think there will be PCs at every price point. "
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Will
I Think
" I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. "
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" My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. "
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Pool
Decisions
Group
" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "
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Hands
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Dictators