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I Have To Admit That Business-type Thoughts Do Sneak Into My Head: I Hope Our Customers Pay Us, I Hope This Stuff Is Decent, I Hope We Get It Done On Time. The Little Additions And Subtractions That One Has To Do. Take Sales, Take Costs And Try To Get That Big Positive Number At The Bottom.

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I Have To Admit That Business-type Thoughts Do Sneak Into My Head: I Hope Our Customers Pay Us, I Hope This Stuff Is Decent, I Hope We Get It Done On Time. The Little Additions And Subtractions That One Has To Do. Take Sales, Take Costs And Try To Get That Big Positive Number At The Bottom.

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

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

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We Can Make Market Forces Work Better For The Poor If We Can Develop A More Creative Capitalism-if We Can Stretch The Reach Of Market Forces So That More People Can Make A Profit, Or At Least Make A Living, Serving People Who Are Suffering From The Worst Inequities. ... You Have More Than We Had; You Must Start Sooner, And Carry On Longer.

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Reward Worthy Failure - Experimentation.

Making Mistakes

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People Everywhere Love Windows.

People Who Say They Don't See The Acceleration Of Innovation Is A Wilful Blindness. We Are Innovation At A Wonderful Speed For The Basic Things We Think Everyone Should Get.

Making Sure All Our Students Get A Great Education, Find A Career That's Fulfilling And Rewarding, And Have A Chance To Live Out Their Dreams ... Wouldn't Just Make Us A More Successful Country - It Would Also Make Us A More Fair And Just One.

When You Have A Product That Has Zero Sales, It Is Easy For People To Say Whatever They Want About It And Almost Fantasize About It.

People Always Fear Change. People Feared Electricity When It Was Invented, Didn't They?

I See Little Commercial Potential For The Internet For At Least Ten Years.

The Trick Generally Is To Break Programs Into Pieces And Have Those Pieces Be Individually Testable And So Then When You Move On To The Other Pieces You Treat It As A Black Box Knowing That It Either Works Or Doesn't Work.

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.

Our Vision, Which Has Not Changed Since The Day The Company Was Founded.

I Understand How Every Healthy Child, Every New Road, Puts A Country On A Better Path, But Instability And War Will Arise From Time To Time, And I'm Not An Expert On How You Get Out Of Those Things.

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.

The Thing About Hd-dvd That Is Attractive To Microsoft Is That It's Very Pro-consumer In Letting You Copy All Movies Up Onto The Hard Disk.

I Considered Law And Math. My Dad Was A Lawyer. I Think Though I Would Have Ended Up In Physics If I Didn't End Up In Computer Science.

If We [microsoft Corporation] Weren't Still Hiring Great People And Pushing Ahead At Full Speed, It Would Be Easy To Fall Behind And Become A Mediocre Company. Fear Should Guide You, But It Should Be Latent. I Have Some Latent Fear. I Consider Failure On A Regular Basis.

My Grade Point Average Went From A 2.2 To A 4.0 Over The Summer. I Wanted To Get Straight A's. I Decided To Get Straight A's. I Didn't Want People To Think I Was Dumb. And When You Get Straight A's Once, Its Easier.

Whether You Believe It A Moral Imperative Or In The Rich World's Enlightened Self-interest, Securing The Conditions That Will Lead To A Healthy, Prosperous Future For Everyone Is A Goal I Believe We All Share.

Prosperous Future

Who In Their Right Mind Would Ever Need More Than 640k Of Ram!?

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.

Self Confidence

Test Scores Aren't Perfect, But Having A Test Score For Math Or Reading Or Other Things That We Can Objectively Measure Is A Meaningful Component That Makes A Lot Of Sense.

People Always Fear Change. People Feared Electricity When It Was Invented, Didn't They? People Feared Coal, They Feared Gas-powered Engines... There Will Always Be Ignorance, And Ignorance Leads To Fear. But With Time, People Will Come To Accept Their Silicon Masters.

Make It Just Like A Mac.

The Wright Brothers Created The Single Greatest Cultural Force Since The Invention Of Writing. The Airplane Became The First World Wide Web, Bringing People, Languages, Ideas, And Values Together.

People Can Criticize Microsoft For Supporting This Tv Thing For The Past Eight Years, But It Is A Long-term Bet, There Is Not Any Other Software Business That Is As Dedicated To The Vision Of The Tv And The Pda [personal Digital Assistant] As We Are.

The Truth Of Moore's Law Has Made Remarkable Things Possible. On The Software Side, I Think Natural User Interfaces In All Their Forms Are Equally Significant.

It Is Hard To Overstate How Valuable It Is To Have All The Incredible Tools That Are Used For Human Disease To Study Plants.

I Like The Idea Of Putting Your Christmas Wish List Up And Letting People Share It.

Christmas Wishes

We Make The Future Sustainable When We Invest In The Poor, Not When We Insist On Their Suffering.

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.

In Order To Deal With All The Medical Cost Demands And Other Challenges In The U.s., As We Look To Raise That Revenue, The Rich Will Have To Pay Slightly More. That's Quite Clear.

I Don't Believe In Creating Dynastic Wealth. I Don't Really Believe That In A Society That Aspires To Be Meritocratic And That Believes In Equality Of Opportunity - My Kids Have Had Advantage Over 99 Percent Of The Kids In The Country.

There Are Ecosystems Like Coral Reefs [at Risk] Through Ocean Acidification. Those Are Valuable Things That We Should Protect.

Success On The Web Require High-level Corporate Understanding Of The Internet's Capabilities And Support Of Early Test-and-invest Projects.

Well-spent Aid Money Is Saving Lives For A Few Thousand Dollars Per Life Saved.

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

Anything You Do, You Better Enjoy It For Its Value. Because People Are Going To Second-guess Everything You Do.

By Helping Us To Be More Productive, Technology Lets Us To Spend Less Time Focusing On Survival, And More On Solving Other Challenges.

I Was Lucky To Be Involved And Get To Contribute To Something That Was Important, Which Is Empowering People With Software.

A Bad Strategy Will Fail No Matter How Good Your Information Is. And Lame Execution Will Stymie A Good Strategy. If You Do Enough Things Poorly, You'll Go Out Of Business.

Capitalism Has Worked Very Well. Anyone Who Wants To Move To North Korea Is Welcome.

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My Mom Was On The United Way Group That Decides How To Allocate The Money And Looks At All The Different Charities And Makes The Very Hard Decisions About Where That Pool Of Funds Is Going To Go.

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