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" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "
Bill Gates
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" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
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" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "
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" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "
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" Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. "
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" 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. "
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" Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. "
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" There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth. "
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" The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny. "
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" My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. "
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" Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. "
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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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" When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. "
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" The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing. "
Bill Gates
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View
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" A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different. "
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" In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. "
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" The future of advertising is the Internet. "
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" India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. "
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" Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. "
Bill Gates
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" Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want. "
Bill Gates
Research
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" Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. "
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" Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. "
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" 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. "
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" We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. "
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" The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest. "
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" Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. "
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" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "
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" This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. "
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