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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. "

Bill Gates

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" The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. "

" Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. "

" By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. "

" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "

Bill Gates

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" 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. "

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" We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. "

" 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. "

" Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. "

" I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. "

" Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. "

" 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. "

" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "

" Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft. "

" Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. "

" The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. "

" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "

" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "

" We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. "

" There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. "

" To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. "

" 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. "

" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "

" It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. "

" 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. "

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

Bill Gates

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" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "

" The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. "