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" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "

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" I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

" I don't generally read a lot of fiction. "

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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. "

" I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. "

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

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

" We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should. "

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" Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. "

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" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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