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" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "
Bill Gates
Think
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" 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. "
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" The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. "
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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. "
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" I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. "
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" I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. "
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" In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. "
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" Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. "
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" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "
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" Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime. "
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" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "
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" Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. "
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You
" This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places. "
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" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "
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" Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. "
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" 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. "
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Time
Today
" 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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California
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" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "
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" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "
Bill Gates
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" By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. "
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" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "
Bill Gates
Fairness
Innovation
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" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "
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" People everywhere love Windows. "
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" Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. "
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" Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. "
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" The kids are a big part of my schedule. "
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" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
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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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" The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest. "
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" Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. "
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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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