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" I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. "
Bill Gates
Voice
Some
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" When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have. "
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" The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. "
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" Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. "
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" It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. "
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" The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. "
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" Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. "
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" Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. "
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" 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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Today
" 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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Think
" The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. "
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Think
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" I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. "
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" I am results-oriented. "
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Am
" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "
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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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" Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. "
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