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" The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. "
Bill Gates
Square
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" I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. "
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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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" When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. "
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Microsoft
" 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. "
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" Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. "
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" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "
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Dictators
" 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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Week
" 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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" 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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" Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. "
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Few
Innovation
Improving
" 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. "
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City
Kid
Things
" What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. "
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School
People
Life
" We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should. "
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Waste
Own
Really
" We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. "
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People
Improve
Feedback
" 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
" In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. "
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Now
California
Texas
" Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted. "
Bill Gates
Free
Corporate
Today
" I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. "
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Religion
People
Need
" There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. "
Bill Gates
People
Capitalism
Like
" Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. "
Bill Gates
Treatment
Simply
Prevention
" I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. "
Bill Gates
Excellent
Memory
Most
" There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure. "
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Frame
Change
Time
" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "
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Customers
Who
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
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Way
Money
Government
" 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. "
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Good
University
Different
" 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. "
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Nice
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" In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. "
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Run
Education
" 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
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Technology
" The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. "
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World
Tough
" I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. "
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Intelligence
Unique
Human