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" The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. "
Bill Gates
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" 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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" With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case. "
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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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" Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. "
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" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "
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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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" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "
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" I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. "
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" I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time. "
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" The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. "
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" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "
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" I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock. "
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" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "
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" I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. "
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" Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. "
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" 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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" Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. "
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" Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. "
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" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "
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" Africa is on the rise. "
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" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "
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" Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. "
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" In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. "
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" 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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" In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. "
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" 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. "
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