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In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
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Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.
Bill Gates
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As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
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If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.
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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
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We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.
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To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
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The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
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The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
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You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.
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To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
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No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
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Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
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If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!
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If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
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The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.
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The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear:
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If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
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