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" 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

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" I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. "

" In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. "

" 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. "

" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "

" The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. "

" Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another. "

" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "

" You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Bill Gates

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" The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "

" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "

" The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. "

" Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. "

" 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. "

" Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue. "

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

" China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. "

" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "

" People everywhere love Windows. "

" Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. "

Bill Gates

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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. "

" There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth. "

" The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. "

" I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. "