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" We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. "
Bill Gates
Behavior
Put
Lot
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" Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems. "
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See
Problems
" 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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Safety
Time
Today
" In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it. "
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Right
Science
Good
" The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. "
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You
Want
Use
" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "
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Watch
Now
Than
" 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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Free
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. "
Bill Gates
Education
You
People
" We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. "
Bill Gates
Always
Yourself
Change
" Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. "
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More
Globalization
Resources
" The mainstream is always under attack. "
Bill Gates
Attack
Mainstream
Always
" Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. "
Bill Gates
Today
House
Way
" Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. "
Bill Gates
Move
North Korea
Welcome
" You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. "
Bill Gates
Friday
Thanksgiving
Monday
" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
Bill Gates
Truth
Believe
Expectations
" For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. "
Bill Gates
Enough
Good
Internet
" No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. "
Bill Gates
Decide
Me
Microsoft
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Best
Education
Good
" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "
Bill Gates
Case
Progressive
Taxes
" Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. "
Bill Gates
Life
Banana
Intellectual
" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "
Bill Gates
Go
Back
High
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Generation
Early
Good
" The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. "
Bill Gates
Absolutely
Best
Quality
" I am results-oriented. "
Bill Gates
I Am
Am
" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "
Bill Gates
Me
Family
Always
" People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. "
Bill Gates
Great
Saying
Place
" In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. "
Bill Gates
Price
You
World
" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "
Bill Gates
World
History
Worst
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Education
People
School
" There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. "
Bill Gates
System
Magic
Washington
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Come
Afraid
Ideas