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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Bill Gates
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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.
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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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[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
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