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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.
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The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
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The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
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The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
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In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.
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Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
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