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" Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. "
Bill Gates
Working Together
Teacher
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" 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. "
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" Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. "
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" Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. "
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" I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. "
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" Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. "
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" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "
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" Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. "
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" I am results-oriented. "
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" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
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" Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism. "
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" I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it. "
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" This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. "
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" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "
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" Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about. "
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Time
World
Soccer
" 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
" Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. "
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How
System
" China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. "
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1980s
System
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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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Decide
Me
Microsoft
" If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life. "
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Life
Living
" The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. "
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Belief
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" In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? "
Bill Gates
Work
Better
Education
" 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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" 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. "
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" Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. "
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Need
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" 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. "
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Book
People
Home
" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "
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Hands
War
Dictators
" Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. "
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Beyond
Utility
" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
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Moving
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" 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. "
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