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" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "
Bill Gates
Time
Gift
You
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" I don't think culture is something you can describe. "
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" 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
" The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it. "
Bill Gates
Building
Financial
Challenge
" Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. "
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" By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "
Bill Gates
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Bad
Time
" Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things. "
Bill Gates
Focus
People
Right
" The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest. "
Bill Gates
Most
Help
Australia
" Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. "
Bill Gates
Easy
Questions
Petty
" People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. "
Bill Gates
Learn
People
Want
" The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. "
Bill Gates
You
Want
Use
" I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it. "
Bill Gates
Way
Volunteer
People
" The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. "
Bill Gates
AIDS
Vaccine
Percent
" When the PC was launched, people knew it was important. "
Bill Gates
PC
People
Important
" In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. "
Bill Gates
You
Problems
Infectious
" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "
Bill Gates
Education
You
People
" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "
Bill Gates
Speak
Will
Up
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
Bill Gates
Way
Money
Government
" Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. "
Bill Gates
Need
Long-Term
Development
" I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies. "
Bill Gates
Nice
Great Things
Myself
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Impact
Over
Started
" Common Core is a big win for education. "
Bill Gates
Win
Education
Core
" People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. "
Bill Gates
Change
Time
Fear
" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "
Bill Gates
Think
Super
Religion
" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "
Bill Gates
Believe
Innovation
Research
" Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. "
Bill Gates
Treatment
Simply
Prevention
" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "
Bill Gates
Future
Poor
Sustainable
" China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. "
Bill Gates
1980s
System
Poverty
" Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. "
Bill Gates
Coach
Matter
Basketball
" The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. "
Bill Gates
Long
Successful
Been
" Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. "
Bill Gates
Like
Being
Go