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" In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically. "
Bill Gates
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" Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. "
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" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "
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" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "
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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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" 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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" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "
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" The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn. "
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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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" 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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" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
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" I spend a lot of time reading. "
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" In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it. "
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" Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' "
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" Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. "
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" I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it. "
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" The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. "
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" Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin. "
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" We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. "
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" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
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" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "
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" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "
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" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
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" Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. "
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" When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. "
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" In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. "
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" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "
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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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