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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.
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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
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I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
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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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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
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If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
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My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.
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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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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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I work hard because I love my work.
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Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.
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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
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Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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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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