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American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Computer Scientist
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William Henry Gates III
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William Henry Bill Gates III
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Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.
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Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.
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Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
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