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" The microprocessor is a miracle. "
Bill Gates
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" Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people. "
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" Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. "
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" I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. "
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" There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. "
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" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "
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" 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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" At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. "
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" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "
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" The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. "
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" 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. "
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" The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. "
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Three
" 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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Great Things
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" Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. "
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People
" I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. "
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" If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? "
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" If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day. "
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You
" We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should. "
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" I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. "
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" People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then. "
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People
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Just
" 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. "
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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?' "
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" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "
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" Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. "
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" I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' "
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" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "
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" 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. "
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" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
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" 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. "
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" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "
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Dying
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