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" The kids are a big part of my schedule. "
Bill Gates
Big
Kids
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" The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. "
Bill Gates
Food
Opportunity
Today
" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "
Bill Gates
More
Dying
Any
" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "
Bill Gates
Me
Family
Always
" The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. "
Bill Gates
Innovation
Better
Progress
" By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. "
Bill Gates
Growth
Women
Improving
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Work
Financial
Good
" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "
Bill Gates
Door
Creating
Day
" If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day. "
Bill Gates
Internet
Every Day
You
" Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. "
Bill Gates
Common
Hear
Views
" 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
" You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. "
Bill Gates
Us
World
You
" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "
Bill Gates
People
Difficult
Change
" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "
Bill Gates
You
Information
Rules
" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "
Bill Gates
Got
Relationship
Interesting
" My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. "
Bill Gates
Pool
Decisions
Group
" I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. "
Bill Gates
Excited
Pretty
World
" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "
Bill Gates
Smallpox
Money
About
" There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints. "
Bill Gates
Always
Long
Phone
" People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then. "
Bill Gates
People
You
Just
" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "
Bill Gates
Future
Poor
Sustainable
" I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. "
Bill Gates
Believe
People
Will
" Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. "
Bill Gates
Number
Back
Magic
" Philanthropy should be voluntary. "
Bill Gates
Should
Voluntary
Philanthropy
" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "
Bill Gates
Government
You
Doing
" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "
Bill Gates
Incredible
AIDS
Stigma
" I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. "
Bill Gates
Writing
Ideas
Flying
" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
Bill Gates
Philosophy
Having
Good
" Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides. "
Bill Gates
Safety
Time
Today
" The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. "
Bill Gates
World
First
Human
" With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents. "
Bill Gates
Gain
Windows
Trying