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I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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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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The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
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If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.
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In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.
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We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
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I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
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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 we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
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America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.
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Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together.
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When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
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I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.
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Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.
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In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.
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