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" The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics. "
Bill Gates
Missing
Energy
Right
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" Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. "
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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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Through
Tests
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
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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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" It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. "
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" People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. "
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Time
Fear
" 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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Kid
Things
" To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. "
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" 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
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Innovation
Democracy
Think
" Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. "
Bill Gates
Now
Generation
Used
" I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. "
Bill Gates
Better
War
Time
" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "
Bill Gates
Education
Unemployment
College
" In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. "
Bill Gates
You
Business
Doing
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Seeds
Life
Living
" When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. "
Bill Gates
Own
Go
Different
" In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. "
Bill Gates
American
Over
Teach
" The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. "
Bill Gates
Technology
Good
Going
" 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
" The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn. "
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Future
Listen
See
" If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. "
Bill Gates
Healthy
Eat
Never
" We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. "
Bill Gates
Close
Basic
PC
" 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
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Attention
People
Week
" I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. "
Bill Gates
Lucky
Belief
Moral
" If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day. "
Bill Gates
Internet
Every Day
You
" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "
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Best
Education
Good
" People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. "
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Your
You
People
" Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. "
Bill Gates
Young Age
Young
World
" If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. "
Bill Gates
Look
Make
You