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" 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. "

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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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" I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. "

" Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. "

" 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. "

" In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. "

" This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing. "

" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "

" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "

" Our teachers deserve better feedback. "

" 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. "

" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "

" 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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" The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. "

" What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' "

" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "

" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "

" Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' "

" Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. "

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" Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. "

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" Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong. "

" Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. "

" Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. "

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

" Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. "

" In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. "

" The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. "

" I think there will be PCs at every price point. "

" Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism. "

" I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. "