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In Energy, You Have To Plan And Do Research Way In Advance, Sometimes Decades In Advance To Get A New System That's Safer, Doesn't Require Us To Go Around The World To Get All Our Oil.

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In Energy, You Have To Plan And Do Research Way In Advance, Sometimes Decades In Advance To Get A New System That's Safer, Doesn't Require Us To Go Around The World To Get All Our Oil.

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I Think Philanthropy Is Also Growing And Catching On. Figuring Out How The Philanthropy Sector, Which Is Quite Small Compared To The Private Sector, Which Is The Biggest By Far, And Then The Governments, You Know, Even In These Poor Countries Over Time Has To Take On These Key Responsibilities. How Does Philanthropy Accelerate That? Drive The Kind Of Innovations, Make Sure They Get Used Well. So It Plays This Kind Of Special Role.

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Historically, Privacy Was Almost Implicit, Because It Was Hard To Find And Gather Information. But In The Digital World, Whether It's Digital Cameras Or Satellites Or Just What You Click On, We Need To Have More Explicit Rules - Not Just For Governments But For Private Companies.

Getting Ready For A Global Pandemic Is Every Bit As Important As Nuclear Deterrence And Avoiding A Climate Catastrophe.

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Imagine The Disincentive To Software Development If After Months Of Work Another Company Could Come Along And Copy Your Work And Market It Under Its Own Name...without Legal Restraints To Such Copying, Companies Like Apple Could Not Afford To Advance The State Of The Art.

I Do Normal Kind Of Contributions, Particularly For People Who Are Going Over To Africa And Help Highlighting Global Health, And That's Tended To Be Pretty Bipartisan In Nature Because Of The Coalition There Exists Fortunately Around These Global Health Issues. But I Don't Think My Backing, Putting A Lot Of Money Into Political Contributions Is A Way I'm Going To Try And Help Improve The World.

Just In Terms Of Allocation Of Time Resources, Religion Is Not Very Efficient. There's A Lot More I Could Be Doing On A Sunday Morning.

If Your Business Is Not On The Internet, Then Your Business Will Be Out Of Business.

Network Marketing

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India Just Went 3 Years With No Cases [of Polio]. Pakistan Is Our Toughest Location Right Now Because Some Parts Of The Taliban Have Not Allowed Vaccinators To Come In And Have Even Attacked Vaccinators. We Are Hopeful This Will Get Resolved Since No One Wants Their Kid To Be Paralyzed. I Spend A Lot Of Time Making Sure The Polio Campaign Is Doing The Best It Can. We Have Great Computer Models That Help Guide Our Activities.

The Year I Was Born, 1955, The First Big Disease-eradication Program In The World Was Declared For Malaria. After About A Decade Of Work, They Realized That, At Least In The Tropical Areas, They Did Not Have The Tools To Get It Done.

If You Were Born Poor, It's Not Your Fault. But If You Die Poor It Is.

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Depending On How Quickly You Get Ocean Rise, You Have People Who Live In River Deltas [at Risk].

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

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It Is A High Bar To Say That It's More Fun Than Working On Software Because The Work At Microsoft That Both Melinda [gates] And I Did Was Thrilling. We Were Making Breakthroughs And Empowering People.

Even In Some Of Our Vaccine Areas, Like An Aids Vaccine, Things Have Taken Longer Than We Expected, But We Have The Pipeline Of Tools. The Biological Information That We Have That Gives Us Insights Is Fantastic.

We Are Always Saying To Ourself.. We Have To Innovate. We Got To Come Up With That Breakthrough... We're Only Paid For Breakthroughs.

Learning From Mistakes And Constantly Improving Products Is A Key In All Successful Companies.

Software Is More Important Than Hardware.

There's Only One Trick In Software, And That Is Using A Piece Of Software That's Already Been Written.

In The Same Way That When The Car Got Going, People Thought It Would Be An Electric Car, People Thought It Would Be A Steam Car. Actually, The Dark Horse In That Race Was Internal Combustion, But Because Of The Energy Density Of Gasoline And Discovery Of Oil In Large Amounts At That Point In First Pennsylvania And Then Texas, It Won Out Over Those Other Two, To The Point That Those Other Two Are Actually Viewed As Obscure Footnotes In History.

What I Do Best Is Share My Enthusiasm.

I Don't Have A Magic Formula For Prioritizing The World's Problems.

Well, No One Gives Aid To Zimbabwe Through The Mugabe Government.

If People Had Understood How Patents Would Be Granted When Most Of Today's Ideas Were Invented, And Had Taken Out Patents, The Industry Would Be At A Complete Standstill Today.

With World Health, Every Life You Save Is A Wonderful Thing, So It's Not This Question Of Whether You Solve It Or You Don't. The Chance Of Completely Solving The Problems Has Long Odds. But Really, The Thing Is That You Get To Save The First Child, The Second Child, The Third Child. You Can Just Feel Good About That.

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.

People Who Feared Ibm Were Wrong, ... Technology Is Ever-changing.

If Your Culture Doesn't Like Geeks, You Are In Real Trouble.

Although I Don't Have A Prescription For What Others Should Do, I Know I Have Been Very Fortunate And Feel A Responsibility To Give Back To Society In A Very Significant Way.

Hopefully, Whether It's Energy Or Child Vaccines, The Case Of The Many Benefits Helping Countries So That They Are Stable, So These Refugee Problems That Have Been Troubling For Europe - A Little Less So For The U.s. But, Even So, A Lot Of Controversy There - These Things Are Why The Future's Going To Be Better Than The Past. People Really Do Look To The United States, So We'll Be There Making The Case.

I Work Hard Because I Love My Work.

A Lot Of People Assume That Creating Software Is Purely A Solitary Activity Where You Sit In An Office With The Door Closed All Day And Write Lots Of Code.

Every New Change Forces All The Companies In An Industry To Adapt Their Strategies To That Change.

There Are A Variety Of Techniques For Breaking Software Down Into Pieces And Making Software Development More Efficient. Many Of These Techniques Have Been Sort Of... And Everybody Got Excited About But Very Little Benefit Was Actually Derived Once The Thing Was Put Into Practice.

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.

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.

The Center For Disease Control Started Out As The Malaria War Control Board Based In Atlanta. Partly Because The Head Of Coke Had Some People Out To His Plantation And They Got Infected With Malaria, And Partly Cause All The Military Recruits Were Coming Down And Having A Higher Fatality Rate From Malaria While Training Than In The Field.

The Nuclear Industry Has This Amazing Record, Even Equipment From Generations One And Two. But Nuclear Mishaps Tend To Come In These Big Events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, And Now Fukushima - So It's More Visible.

If I Will Start All Over Again I Would Chose Network Marketing.

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