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There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
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To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
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Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.
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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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If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
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Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.
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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
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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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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
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Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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