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In 1990, One In 10 Children Died Before The Age Of Five. That's Now Down To One In 20, And Vaccines Were The Single Biggest Factor In That. Had It Stayed At 10 Percent, 122 Million More Children Would Have Died.

-Bill Gates

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In 1990, One In 10 Children Died Before The Age Of Five. That's Now Down To One In 20, And Vaccines Were The Single Biggest Factor In That. Had It Stayed At 10 Percent, 122 Million More Children Would Have Died.

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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.

Scientists And Companies Weren't Creating Things Like New Vaccines. Now That We Have This Fund That's There To Buy At The Lowest Price, But Buy For Those People These Medicines, We See Scientists Everywhere Coming Up With Those New Tools.

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We All Need People Who Will Give Us Feedback. That's How We Improve.

On The Supply Side, For Innovation, You'd Say, Go Look At Those R&d Budgets, And They Haven't Moved In The Last 20 Years. In The Case Of The Us - Which Is The Majority Of R&d Funding Across Every Category You Can Name: Health, Energy, Whatever - It's Been About $5 Billion A Year From The Department Of Energy.

In The Old Generation, If One Kid Bought A Playstation 2 And The Other Kid Bought An Xbox, At His House You Played Playstation, At Your House You Played Xbox. Now That It's Online, All Those Early Buyers Who... You Want To Play With, They've Got Their Reputation Online Of Who They Are And How Good They Are At These Games.

My Experience Of Malaria Was Just Taking Anti-malarials, Which Give You Strange Dreams, Because I Don't Want To Get Malaria.

Teams Should Be Able To Act With The Same Unity Of Purpose And Focus As A Well Motivated Individual.

The Us In Some Ways Has Been The Best. Who Figured Out Shale Gas? Although That Wasn't A Good Thing [for Co2 Levels], It Was Very Innovative. It's Led To Low-cost Energy. Who Figured Out Nuclear Power? Largely The United States. Once You Get Past The Steam Engine, Which Is Mostly British, Then The Us Has Been At The Center Of Most Of The Energy Things That Have Happened.

It’s Useful To Compare Our Preparations For Epidemics With Our Preparations For War.

We're At The Point Now Where The Challenge Isn't How To Communicate Effectively With E-mail; It's Ensuring That You Spend Your Time On The E-mail That Matters Most.

Most People Overestimate What They Can Do In One Year And Underestimate What They Can Do In Ten Years.

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