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As You Get To The End Of The Project You Want To Run All The Tests Cases Against One Version And Make Sure That You Know That That Version Passed Everything. And So As You Get Late In The Project You Get A Little More Conservative About Making Radical Changes To The Software.

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As You Get To The End Of The Project You Want To Run All The Tests Cases Against One Version And Make Sure That You Know That That Version Passed Everything. And So As You Get Late In The Project You Get A Little More Conservative About Making Radical Changes To The Software.

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A Top-quartile Teacher Will Increase The Performance Of Their Class - Based On Test Scores - By Over 10 Percent In A Single Year. ... That Means That If The Entire U.s., For Two Years, Had Top-quartile Teachers, The Entire Difference Between Us And Asia Would Go Away.

Our Current Expectations For What Our Students Should Learn In School Were Set ﬁfty Years Ago To Meet The Needs Of An Economy Based On Manufacturing And Agriculture. We Now Have An Economy Based On Knowledge And Technology.

Software Innovation, Like Almost Every Other Kind Of Innovation, Requires The Ability To Collaborate And Share Ideas With Other People, And To Sit Down And Talk With Customers And Get Their Feedback And Understand Their Needs.

Spam Will Be A Thing Of The Past In Two Years' Time.

We’re No Longer In The Days Where Every Program Is Super Well Crafted. But At The Heart Of The Programs That Make It To The Top, You’ll Find That The Key Internal Code Was Done By A Few People Who Really Knew What They Were Doing.

One Thing People Underestimate Is How Markets Don't Allow Anyone To Do Anything Except Make Better And Better Products. There's Not Much Leeway. The World Is A Lot More Competitive Than Most People Think, Particularly In A High-technology Area. If A Company Takes Its Eye Off Improving Its Products, If It Tries To Do Anything That Would Be Viewed As An Exercise Of Power, It'll Be Displaced Very Rapidly.

One Of The Wonderful Things About The Information Highway Is That Virtual Equity Is Far Easier To Achieve Than Real-world Equity...we Are All Created Equal In The Virtual World And We Can Use This Equality To Help Address Some Of The Sociological Problems That Society Has Yet To Solve In The Physical World.

In This Business, By The Time You Realize You're In Trouble, It's Too Late To Save Yourself. Unless You're Running Scared All The Time, You're Gone.

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I Could Name About A Dozen Paths, And You'd Like To Have A Whole Bunch Of Research On All Those Paths, And Then, Eventually, At Least Four To Five Companies With Really Significant Financing Try And Get To Big Scale, Going Down And Really Trying To Prove It Out.

Governments Will Always Play A Huge Part In Solving Big Problems. They Set Public Policy And Are Uniquely Able To Provide The Resources To Make Sure Solutions Reach Everyone Who Needs Them. They Also Fund Basic Research, Which Is A Crucial Component Of The Innovation That Improves Life For Everyone.

If You Withdraw The Incredible Focus On Polio, It Will Spread Back, And In Poor Countries You'll Get Something Like 100,000 Cases A Year. So By Being Very Intense And Getting The Cases Down To Zero, What You Do Is You Avoid All The Future Cases.

In Almost Every Area Of Human Endeavor, The Practice Improves Over Time. That Hasn't Been The Case For Teaching.

The U.s. Couldn't Even Get Rid Of Saddam Hussein. And We All Know That The Eu Is Just A Passing Fad. They'll Be Killing Each Other Again In Less Than A Year. I'm Sick To Death Of All These Fascist Lawsuits.

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