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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.' "
Bill Gates
Always
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Science
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" Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas. "
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" I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. "
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Product
Never
" Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. "
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" In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. "
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" I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. "
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People
Need
" The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. "
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Year
World
" Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue. "
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Actually
Bit
" Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. "
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Questions
Petty
" If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? "
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Bridge
Getting Better
Me
" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "
Bill Gates
More
Dying
Any
" The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. "
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Understand
Life
My Life
" The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate. "
Bill Gates
People
Done
Repetition
" 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
Go
Different
" Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. "
Bill Gates
Need
Long-Term
Development
" I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. "
Bill Gates
Well
Care
Clothes
" I'm a geek. "
Bill Gates
Geek
" Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. "
Bill Gates
Impact
Important
New
" When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. "
Bill Gates
Want
You
Choices
" I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. "
Bill Gates
Voice
Some
Depth
" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "
Bill Gates
Know
Five
Language
" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "
Bill Gates
Hands
War
Dictators
" Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. "
Bill Gates
Highly
Small
Curious
" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "
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Speak
Will
Up
" I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. "
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People
Great
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" Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about. "
Bill Gates
Time
World
Soccer
" You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. "
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Go
Down
Magic
" People everywhere love Windows. "
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Windows
People
Love
" Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. "
Bill Gates
Success
Lose
Smart
" 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? "
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Thought
Giving
You