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" In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. "

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" There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. "

Bill Gates

People

Capitalism

" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "

" I don't think culture is something you can describe. "

" In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. "

" The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing. "

" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "

" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "

" There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. "

" I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. "

" In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. "

" The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. "

" Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. "

" There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. "

" When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. "

Bill Gates

Own

Different

" I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. "

" The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand. "

" Philanthropy should be voluntary. "

" People everywhere love Windows. "

" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "

" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "

Bill Gates

Dying

Any

" 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. "

" The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. "

" Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted. "

" There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth. "

" If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. "

Bill Gates

Car

Technology

" The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. "

" 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. "

" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "

" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "

" The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest. "