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Having Kids Has Been A Fantastic Thing For Me. It's Meant That I'm A Little More Balanced. In My Twenties I Worked Massively, Hardly Took Vacation At All. Now, I, With The Help Of My Wife, I'm Always Making Sure I've Got A Good Balance Of How I Spend My Time.

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Bill Gates

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Having Kids Has Been A Fantastic Thing For Me. It's Meant That I'm A Little More Balanced. In My Twenties I Worked Massively, Hardly Took Vacation At All. Now, I, With The Help Of My Wife, I'm Always Making Sure I've Got A Good Balance Of How I Spend My Time.

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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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The Market Does Not Drive The Scientists, The Communicators, The Thinkers, The Government To Do The Right Things.

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Teaching Is The Human Thing, In Terms Of Building The Kids' Self-confidence, So If We Take The Broad Ways That We Want To See Society To Be Better, Science Can Only Provide Certain Pieces Of That.

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Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code Is Like Measuring Aircraft Building Progress By Weight.

What Are The Top 20 Universities In The World That Do Good Materials Research That Might Create Carbon Fibers To Do Jet Stream Kites Or New Magnets That Will Allow [energy] Generation To Be Done Up There And You Just Bring The Electricity Down. You Either Have To Bring Down Rotational Energy, Which Is Hard, Or You Have To Have The Generator Up There And Bring Down The Electricity. Well, Putting The Generator Up There Is Hard To Do Because It's Too Heavy.

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Reward Worthy Failure - Experimentation.

Making Mistakes

Legacy Is A Stupid Thing! I Don't Want A Legacy.

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The More You Learn, The More You Have A Framework That The Knowledge Fits Into.

You Don't Have To Own A Tv Network To Go Out And Do A Cool Show.

For Africa To Move Forward, You've Really Got To Get Rid Of Malaria.

Looking At These Issues As A Businessman, I Believe That Investing In The World's Poorest People Is The Smartest Way That Our Government Spends Money.

We're Only At The Beginning Of What We Have To Do Here.

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I'm Certainly Well Taken Care Of In Terms Of Food And Clothes ... Money Has No Utility To Me Beyond A Certain Point. Its Utility Is Entirely In Building An Organization And Getting The Resources Out To The Poorest In The World.

Microsoft Is Not About Greed. It's About Innovation And Fairness.

There Is Competition, .. Can Any Microsoft Endure Future Competition Without Innovation? The Answer Is No. We've Got To Keep Changing.

Helping Convene Global Stakeholders To Establish A Set Of Measurable, Actionable And Consensus-built Goals Focused On Extreme Poverty Is Invaluable.

Information Work Is Thinking Work.

Dos Is Ugly And Interferes With Users' Experience.

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The Way To Be Successful In The Software World Is To Come Up With Breakthrough Software, And So Whether It's Microsoft Office Or Windows, Its Pushing That Forward. New Ideas, Surprising The Marketplace, So Good Engineering And Good Business Are One In The Same.

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Finding Information Is Either A Software Question Or A Question Of How Much Information Is Online.

Ok, I Have A Nickname. My Family Calls Me 'trey' Because I'm William The Third. My Dad Has The Same Name, Which Is Always Confusing Because My Dad Is Well Known, And I'm Also Known.

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Microsoft Is Involved In Setting Some Fairly Key Standards And People Are Afraid Of It Because They Think, Geez, They Are Quite Capable. It's Daunting, I Suppose.

China And The U.s. Need Each Other Very Badly. Yes, We Should Argue About Some Things, But It's Not An 'us Versus Them,' It's An 'us And Them' Type Scenario.

The Media Covers What’s New – And Millions Of People Dying Is Nothing New. So It Stays In The Background, Where It’s Easier To Ignore. But Even When We Do See It Or Read About It, It’s Difficult To Keep Our Eyes On The Problem. It’s Hard To Look At Suffering If The Situation Is So Complex That We Don’t Know How To Help. And So We Look Away.

There's A Unique Thing About The Uk, Where You Give A Very Generous Foreign Aid Budget To Support Globally, Which Is Spent Wisely. We Partner With The Government Here To Make Sure That That Money Is Spent Well.

This Social-networking Thing Takes You To Crazy Places.

We Believe Unbelievable Progress Can Be Made, In Both Inventing New Vaccines And Making Sure They Get Out To All The Children Who Need Them.

Connectivity Enables Transparency For Better Government, Education, And Health.

Government Education

The Flatter The Corporate Hierarchy, The More Likely It Is That Employees Will Communicate Bad News And Act Upon It.

If You Are Low Income In The United States, You Have A Higher Chance Of Going To Jail Than Getting A 4-year Degree.

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

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?

The Barrier To Change Is Not Too Little Caring; It Is Too Much Complexity.

Well The Protester I Think Is A Very Powerful Thing. It's Basically A Mechanism Of Democracy That, Along With Capitalism, Scientific Innovation, Those Things Have Built The Modern World. And It's Wonderful That The New Tools Have Empowered That Protestor So That State Secrets, Bad Developments Are Not Hidden Anymore.

There Was A Concept A Long Time Ago That You Would Do A Different Type Of Reactor Called A "fast Reactor," That Would Make A Bunch Of Another Element Called Plutonium, And Then You Would Pull That Out, And Then You Would Burn That. That's Called "breeding" In A Fast Reactor. That Is Bad Because Plutonium Is Nuclear Weapons Material. It's Messy. The Processing You Have To Get Through Is Not Only Environmentally Difficultly, It's Extremely Expensive.

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.

'i Don't Know' Has Become 'i Don't Know Yet'.

We Need To Get A Broader Awareness. People Say Climate Change Is Really Bad, But Painting That Picture Of What You're Putting At Risk.

This Is Something We're Very Committed To, It's Something That I Think People Are Underestimating Right Now As They've Seen Some Of The Dot-com Promises Not Come Through. I Think They're Missing The Fact That The Basic Technology Is Moving Forward, The New Platforms Are Here And This Vision Of The Digital Decade Will Be A Reality.

Money Has No Utility To Me Beyond A Certain Point.

Microsoft Has Had Clear Competitors In The Past. It's A Good Thing We Have Museums To Document That.

In K-12, Almost Everybody Goes To Local Schools. Universities Are A Bit Different Because Kids Actually Do Pick The University. The Bizarre Thing, Though, Is That The Merit Of University Is Actually How Good The Students Going In Are: The Sat Scores Of The Kids Going In.

I Believe In Generous Aid Policies.

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Cutting Through Complexity To Find A Solution Runs Through Four Predictable Stages: Determine A Goal, Find The Highest-leverage Approach, Discover The Ideal Technology For That Approach, And In The Meantime, Make The Smartest Application Of The Technology That You Already Have - Whether It's Something Sophisticated, Like A Drug, Or Something Simpler, Like A Bednet.

I Love Building The Products, Seeing People Use The Products But You Know Along With Success Comes The Need For A Dialogue With The Government.

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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I Remember Thinking Quite Logically That I Didn't Want To Spoil My Children With Wealth And So That I Would Create A Foundation, But Not Knowing Exactly What It Would Focus On.

We All Have The Chance To Create A World Where Extreme Poverty Is The Exception Rather Than The Rule.

Rich Countries Can Afford To Overpay For Things.

I've Been Very Lucky, And Therefore I Owe It To Try And Reduce The Inequity In The World. And That's Kind Of A Religious Belief. I Mean, It's At Least A Moral Belief.

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The Spread Of Online Information Isn't Just Good For Charities. It's Also Good For Donors. You Can Go To A Site Like Charity Navigator, Which Evaluates Nonprofits On Their Financial Health As Well As The Amount Of Information They Share About Their Work.

The Human Body Is The Most Complex System Ever Created. The More We Learn About It, The More Appreciation We Have About What A Rich System It Is.

The United States Has A Huge Budget Deficit So Taxes Are Going To Have To Go Up And I Certainly Agree They Should Go Up More On The Rich Than Everyone Else. That - That's Just Justice.

That's The Part Where The Governments Have A Unique Role, And Then When It Progresses Well Enough, Then Existing Companies Or New Startup Companies Should Take It. In The $3 Trillion A Year Energy Market, The Rewards Will Be Quite Fantastic.

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

The Internet Will Help Achieve "friction Free Capitalism" By Putting Buyer And Seller In Direct Contact And Providing More Information To Both About Each Other.

I Get More Spam Than Anyone I Know.

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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People Want To Watch Whatever Video They Want To Watch Whenever They Want To Watch. If You Provision Your Internet Infrastructure Adequately, You Can Do That.

We Work With Whoever Is Elected. Some Will Bring A More Generous, Open View Of The World Than Others.

Change The Boundaries Of Business.

Five Years From Now On The Web For Free You’ll Be Able To Find The Best Lectures In The World. It Will Be Better Than Any Single University.

You May Have Heard Of Black Friday And Cyber Monday. There's Another Day You Might Want To Know About: Giving Tuesday. The Idea Is Pretty Straightforward. On The Tuesday After Thanksgiving, Shoppers Take A Break From Their Gift-buying And Donate What They Can To Charity.

Philanthropy, Although It's Tiny Compared To The Government, It's 2% Of The Us Economy, Which Is The Largest Percentage, Other Than The Middle East.

Intellectual Property Has The Shelf Life Of A Banana.

You Have To Be Willing To See That Sometimes The Governments Of These Poor Countries Don't Come Through. You Have To Think About That As A Constraint. How Do You Help Them Be Better? How Do You Come Up With Things That Actually Work, Even In Those Tough Situations.

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