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" Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. "
Bill Gates
Better
Than
Safety
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" People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. "
Bill Gates
Great
Saying
Place
" I spend a lot of time reading. "
Bill Gates
Lot
Reading
Spend
" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "
Bill Gates
Parents
Life
Name
" Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. "
Bill Gates
News
Need
Down
" It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. "
Bill Gates
Change
Disappear
Nobody
" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "
Bill Gates
Future
Poor
Sustainable
" The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. "
Bill Gates
People
Support
Impressive
" Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. "
Bill Gates
Weather
Sports
Business
" Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. "
Bill Gates
Brazil
Like
Biggest
" The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. "
Bill Gates
Absolutely
Best
Quality
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Good
University
Different
" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "
Bill Gates
Incredible
AIDS
Stigma
" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
Bill Gates
Pace
Moving
Innovation
" There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively. "
Bill Gates
More
Europe
Other
" 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
" I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. "
Bill Gates
Better
War
Time
" Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. "
Bill Gates
Software
Support
Problem
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Think
Amazing
Social Media
" I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. "
Bill Gates
Very
Twenties
Person
" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "
Bill Gates
Post
Expensive
Getting
" The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. "
Bill Gates
Square
Tomorrow
Village
" The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. "
Bill Gates
Hit
Burning
Today
" Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. "
Bill Gates
Creative
Computers
Problems
" The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. "
Bill Gates
Done
You
Think
" Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. "
Bill Gates
Working Together
Teacher
Technology
" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "
Bill Gates
World
History
Worst
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Home
Looking
Reading
" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
Bill Gates
Philosophy
Having
Good
" Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. "
Bill Gates
Well-Spent
Life
Money
" With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents. "
Bill Gates
Gain
Windows
Trying