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" I'm not a macroeconomics person. "
Bill Gates
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" I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. "
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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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" It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' "
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" 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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" The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk. "
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" Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. "
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" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "
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" We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. "
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" The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics. "
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" The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. "
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" Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. "
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" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "
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" Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. "
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" Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. "
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" 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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