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I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
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Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
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On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
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China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
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It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.
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Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.
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Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.
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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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Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
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