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" The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. "
Bill Gates
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" I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. "
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" Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.' "
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" Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card. "
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" There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. "
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" I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett. "
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" K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. "
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" I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. "
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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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" Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong. "
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" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "
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" Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. "
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Security
Environment
" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "
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" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "
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People
Time
" The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. "
Bill Gates
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" The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. "
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Life
My Life
" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "
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Google
Software
" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "
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You
People
" The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn. "
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Listen
See
" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "
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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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World
" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "
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Now
Than
" 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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You
" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
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Good
" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "
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" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "
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" There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. "
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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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Time
You
" In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively. "
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