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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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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
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Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.
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