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" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "

Bill Gates

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" China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. "

" In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. "

" The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. "

" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "

" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "

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

" Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. "

" The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. "

" I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. "

" I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. "

" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "

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" Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. "

" Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. "

" I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it. "

" The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. "

" I'm not a macroeconomics person. "

Bill Gates

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

" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "

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" Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. "

" We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past. "

" Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. "

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

" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "

" In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. "

" China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. "

" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "

" 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. "

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

Bill Gates

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" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "

" The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. "