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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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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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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
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Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.
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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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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 US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate.
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At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
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How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
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The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.
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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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Vaccines are extremely well tested their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
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Often you have to rely on intuition.
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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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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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