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Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
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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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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
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I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
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If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.
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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
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Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
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The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
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I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!
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