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" You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. "
Bill Gates
Us
World
You
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" I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. "
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" The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. "
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" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "
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" One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' "
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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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" There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively. "
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" Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. "
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" Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. "
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Think
Sales
" 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. "
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" Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. "
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Time
Care
" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "
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" There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. "
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" Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. "
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Connection
Kind
Always
" Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. "
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Good
Internet
Going
" 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. "
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Today
House
Way
" I don't generally read a lot of fiction. "
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Fiction
Read
" Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. "
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Time
Reading
Digital
" 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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Door
Creating
Day
" People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. "
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Your
You
People
" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "
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" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "
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" Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas. "
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" Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin. "
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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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" Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. "
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" 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. "
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Always
" 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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" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "
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Believe
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" I don't think culture is something you can describe. "
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