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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

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Age: 69
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Born: October 28
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We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.
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The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.
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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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Our leadership [in Microsoft ] has that - hey, we are the best in certain ways, and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
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The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
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Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
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If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.
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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
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Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.
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If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!
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A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together.
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