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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 64k To 640k 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 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 64k To 640k 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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Self Confidence

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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.

The End Of The Day

I Am Super Lucky. I've Been In The Area Where Things Have Been Changing And Been Part Of The Digital Revolution, The Magic Of Software, The Internet, The Computer, And Now The Cellphone... So It's Been A Great Privilege.

Only A Few Businesses Will Succeed By Having The Lowest Price, So Most Will Need A Strategy That Includes Customer Services.

If You Are Born Poor Its Not Your Mistake, But If You Die Poor Its Your Mistake.

[aids ] Is Not A Short-term Emergency But It Is Something That, Just Like Smallpox Was Many Decades Ago, We Should Aim For Complete Eradication.

Since When Has The World Of Computer Software Design Been About What People Want? This Is A Simple Question Of Evolution. The Day Is Quickly Coming When Every Knee Will Bow Down To A Silicon Fist, And You Will All Beg Your Binary Gods For Mercy.

Some People Read Off Of Their Palms And Pocket Pcs, But The Real Immersible Reading Experience Takes A Full-screen Device.

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.

Every Three Years, We Have To Go To The Governments And Say, Okay, You Know You're Saving Millions Of Lives And Even Though Your Budgets Are Tight, Helping Africa Avoid This Disaster Really Is A Priority.

The First Five Years Have So Much To Do With How The Next 80 Turn Out.

I Went Public Too Soon. Stay Private As Long As You Can.

Until We're Educating Every Kid In A Fantastic Way, Until Every Inner City Is Cleaned Up, There Is No Shortage Of Things To Do.

To Get A Big Company Moving Fast, Especially On A Many-headed Opportunity Like The Internet, You Have To Have Hundreds Of People Participating And Coming Up With Ideas.

Spam Is Taking E-mail, Which Is A Wonderful Tool, And Exploiting The Idea That It's Very Inexpensive To Send Mail.

I Am Not A Huge Gamer. My Son Knows A Lot More Than I Do About What Is Cool On Xbox. I Played Halo But The Sports Games That The Whole Family Can Use Are The Things I Use The Most. I Threw The Javelin Very Very Far!

Vaccination Is One Of The Easiest Things On The Way To Development. It's Much Easier Than Roads And A Great Education System. It's Very Basic. It's One Of The First Things You Want To Get Right.

A Company's Ability To Respond To An Unplanned Event, Good Or Bad Is A Prime Indicator Of Its Ability To Compete.

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

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

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