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" If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. "

Bill Gates

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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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" 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. "

" We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past. "

" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "

" In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. "

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" Our teachers deserve better feedback. "

" I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. "

" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "

" What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' "

" In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. "

" 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. "

" You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. "

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" China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. "

" Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally. "

" Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft. "