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" In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. "
Bill Gates
Price
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" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "
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" Our teachers deserve better feedback. "
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" You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. "
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" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "
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" We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. "
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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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" The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing. "
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" If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. "
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" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "
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" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "
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" Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. "
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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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" When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it. "
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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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" It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. "
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" Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. "
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" In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. "
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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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" Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. "
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" India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. "
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" The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. "
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" Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. "
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" Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. "
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" Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. "
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" The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. "
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" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "
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" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "
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" I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' "
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" A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different. "
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