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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
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The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.
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If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
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I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
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Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
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The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
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I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
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Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
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Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business...
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I spend a lot of time reading.
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
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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.