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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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" 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. "

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" In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? "

" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "

" Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. "

" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "

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" I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. "

" I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. "

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

" In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. "

" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "

" Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated. "

" If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. "

" My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. "

" People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then. "

" Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. "

" 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. "

" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "

" 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. "

Bill Gates

Industrial Revolution

You

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" Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. "

" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "

" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "

" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "

" The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. "

" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "

" Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. "

" 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

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" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "

" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "

" Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. "

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" If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. "