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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.
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I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees
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In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.
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Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
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The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.
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One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.
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I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
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I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.
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Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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