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" Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day. "
Bill Gates
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" By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "
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" U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market. "
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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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" It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' "
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" 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. "
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" Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. "
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" I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. "
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" The mainstream is always under attack. "
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" The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. "
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World
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" If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. "
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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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" The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. "
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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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Education
Good
" 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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Change
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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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Monday
" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "
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Government
" The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. "
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" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "
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" Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. "
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" 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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Life
My Life
" Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. "
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" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "
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" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "
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" Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. "
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" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
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" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "
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" Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. "
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