Bill Gates Quotes
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Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world...
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
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I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
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Two years from now, spam will be solved.
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The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
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AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
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The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
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Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.
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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
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I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
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The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
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My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
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Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
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My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.
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People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.