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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime
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It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the
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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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How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
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In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'
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In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
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Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
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China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
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3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.
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