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" Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. "
Bill Gates
Really
Energy
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" In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. "
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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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" Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. "
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" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "
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" 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. "
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" If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. "
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" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "
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Zimbabwe
Well
" Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. "
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Simply
Prevention
" If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. "
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You
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" Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems. "
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" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "
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Back
High
" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "
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Innovation
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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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World
Will
Washington
" It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. "
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Want
High
" Philanthropy should be voluntary. "
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Voluntary
Philanthropy
" 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. "
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Belief
Moral
" I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. "
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Through
Tests
" It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. "
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Hard
Tools
" Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder. "
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You
Create
Philosophy
" We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. "
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Improve
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" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "
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You
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" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "
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More
Dying
Any
" Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card. "
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Business
Want
" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "
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New Things
Great
Tough
" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "
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I Can
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" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "
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Hands
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Dictators
" Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. "
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" I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. "
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" 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. "
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You
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" The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. "
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Square
Tomorrow
Village