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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.
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It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.
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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
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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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Our teachers deserve better feedback.
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There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
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If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
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Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.
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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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The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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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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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.
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The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
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If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
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