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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life.
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About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
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Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.
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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
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If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
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We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems
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People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
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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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The barrier to change is not too little caring it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
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In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
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[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
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People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.
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Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.
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Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
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