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My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.
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At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
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You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.
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Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
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Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
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You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.
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Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
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No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
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There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
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Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.
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Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
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When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
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