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There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
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As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.
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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
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My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.
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In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
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Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
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Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
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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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My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
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That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.
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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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