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" You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. "
Bill Gates
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" As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. "
Bill Gates
Next
Others
Will
" Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. "
Bill Gates
Participation
Community
Poor
" Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. "
Bill Gates
Better
Education
Health
" I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. "
Bill Gates
Important
Get
Lucky
" In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. "
Bill Gates
You
Business
Doing
" I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time. "
Bill Gates
Watch
Wear
Used
" This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing. "
Bill Gates
Amazing
Computer
Library
" India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot. "
Bill Gates
World
Move
Born
" There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. "
Bill Gates
Look
Forward
Books
" When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. "
Bill Gates
Primary
Activity
Microsoft
" Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. "
Bill Gates
Creative
Computers
Problems
" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
Bill Gates
Pace
Moving
Innovation
" In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. "
Bill Gates
Book
People
Home
" Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. "
Bill Gates
Young Age
Young
World
" For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria. "
Bill Gates
Get
Africa
You
" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "
Bill Gates
Responsibility
Support
Bear
" We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. "
Bill Gates
Capitalism
Well
Way
" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "
Bill Gates
World
Intelligence
Government
" Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. "
Bill Gates
Life
Banana
Intellectual
" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "
Bill Gates
Fairness
Innovation
Microsoft
" Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. "
Bill Gates
Common
Hear
Views
" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "
Bill Gates
Future
Poor
Sustainable
" The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing. "
Bill Gates
Always
View
Kind
" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "
Bill Gates
Attention
People
Week
" Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things. "
Bill Gates
You
Cheap
Bad
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Low
People
Time
" DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. "
Bill Gates
Interferes
Experience
Ugly
" 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. "
Bill Gates
City
Kid
Things
" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "
Bill Gates
Got
Relationship
Interesting
" I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. "
Bill Gates
Excellent
Memory
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