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" The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' "

Bill Gates

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" Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. "

" Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. "

" Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. "

" I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. "

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

" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "

" Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. "

" Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. "

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" Newspaper readership is still growing in India. "

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

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" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "

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" The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. "

" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "

" I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. "

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" If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. "

" We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. "

" 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. "

" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "

" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "

" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "

" 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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Technology

" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "

" In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. "

" 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. "

" We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past. "

" Africa is on the rise. "

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" The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. "

" If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. "

" We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. "