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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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Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
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Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
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The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.
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I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that? Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.
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On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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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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We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.
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There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.
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The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.
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The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
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I get more spam than anyone I know.
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
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