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" Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. "
Bill Gates
Dying
Good
You
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" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "
Bill Gates
Compassion
Our
Human
" If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? "
Bill Gates
Line
Finish
Finish Line
" Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. "
Bill Gates
Well
Like
Product
" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "
Bill Gates
Post
Expensive
Getting
" The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. "
Bill Gates
Down
Control
War
" 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
" You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well. "
Bill Gates
Games
Everything
Always
" The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. "
Bill Gates
Absolutely
Best
Quality
" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "
Bill Gates
Business
I Believe
Investment
" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "
Bill Gates
Me
Family
Always
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Government
Perfect
Truth
" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "
Bill Gates
More
Dying
Any
" When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have. "
Bill Gates
Impact
Over
Started
" I'm not a macroeconomics person. "
Bill Gates
Person
" Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. "
Bill Gates
Life
Problems
Research
" For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. "
Bill Gates
Enough
Good
Internet
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Friday
Thanksgiving
Monday
" Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. "
Bill Gates
Today
House
Way
" The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. "
Bill Gates
Africa
Adapt
Three
" Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. "
Bill Gates
Common
Hear
Views
" The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. "
Bill Gates
Belief
Poverty
Disease
" The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. "
Bill Gates
AIDS
Vaccine
Percent
" I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. "
Bill Gates
Video Games
Time
Think
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Impossible
World
Strength
" Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. "
Bill Gates
Attention
Positive
You
" K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. "
Bill Gates
Parents
Babysitting
Things
" What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. "
Bill Gates
School
People
Life
" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "
Bill Gates
You
Bad
Improvement
" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "
Bill Gates
Business
Will
Technology
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Understand
Life
My Life