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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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Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.
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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
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I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
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Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.
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The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
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If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
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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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Taxes are an investment in America.
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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
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If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.
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See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success...
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Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.
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Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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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 read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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