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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's well accepted. I mean, it's not politically controversial that this is a great humanitarian effort. But budgets are very very tight.
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In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
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Learn from your unhappy customers.
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Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
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We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.
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If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
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Our teachers deserve better feedback.
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I didn't even complete my University Education
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Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation saying, okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there. It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us.
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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
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You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.
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I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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