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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.
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Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
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It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
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50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.
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Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.
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Inspiration starts somewhere.
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The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate.
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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
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Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.
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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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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.
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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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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
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Vision without execution is daydreaming.
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