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" Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue. "
Bill Gates
Revenue
Actually
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" No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. "
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" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "
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" China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. "
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" 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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" One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' "
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" 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. "
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" If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? "
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Me
" 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
" The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work. "
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Work
Financial
Good
" We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. "
Bill Gates
Always
Yourself
Change
" When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. "
Bill Gates
Parents
Growing Up
Volunteer
" For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria. "
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Get
Africa
You
" I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. "
Bill Gates
Well
Care
Clothes
" I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. "
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Get
Lucky
" DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. "
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Experience
Ugly
" The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate. "
Bill Gates
People
Done
Repetition
" 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
" If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. "
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Car
Up
Technology
" You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. "
Bill Gates
Friday
Thanksgiving
Monday
" Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. "
Bill Gates
Run
Richer
Terrible
" If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. "
Bill Gates
Fair
Jail
Degree
" The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. "
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Know
Death
Again
" Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas. "
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Polio
Cases
Ninety
" Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. "
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Food
Security
Environment
" 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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You
Want
Use
" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "
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Attention
People
Week
" Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. "
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More
Globalization
Resources
" 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. "
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Building
Financial
Challenge
" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "
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Believe
Innovation
Research
" 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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Done
You
Think