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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.

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Bill Gates

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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.

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Security Is, I Would Say, Our Top Priority Because For All The Exciting Things You Will Be Able To Do With Computers - Organizing Your Lives, Staying In Touch With People, Being Creative - If We Don't Solve These Security Problems, Then People Will Hold Back.

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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.

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Virtually Every Company Will Be Going Out And Empowering Their Workers With A Certain Set Of Tools, And The Big Difference In How Much Value Is Received From That Will Be How Much The Company Steps Back And Really Thinks Through Their Business Processes, Thinking Through How Their Business Can Change, How Their Project Management, Their Customer Feedback, Their Planning Cycles Can Be Quite Different Than They Ever Were Before.

If You Get Health, Then You Have Opportunity For Literacy. Health First, Then Literacy. Once You Have Literacy, Then You Have A Chance To Bring In The New Tools Of Communication. Let People Reach Out And Have Access To The Latest Advances.

When You Develop Software, The People Who Write The Software, The Developers Are The Key Group But The Testers Also Play An Absolutely Critical Role. They're The Ones Who Ah, Write Thousands And Thousands Of Examples And Make Sure That It's Going To Work On All The Different Computers And Printers And The Different Amounts Of Memory Or Networks That The Software'11 Be Used In. That's A Very Hard Job.

Going Out In The Field, It's Always Enlightening To See What's Working And What's Not And To Sit Down And Talk - I Was With Young Girls In South Africa - Understanding Why Our Tools For Prevention Aren't Being Adopted, And What Way May Need To Invent To Help Protect Them.

Energy Innovation Is Not A Nationalistic Game.

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.

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.

Improving The Health & Productivity Of The Poorest Is One Of The Best Investments You Can Make In The Future Of The World

To Succeed, You Also Have To Know How To Make Choices And How To Think More Broadly.

This Is A Fantastic Time To Be Entering The Business World, Because Business Is Going To Change More In The Next 10 Years Than It Has In The Last 50.

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

The Uk Is A Very International Country.

Make Sure People Get Educated, Help Out With Health Emergencies. Those Things, The Government Should Do. That's 96 Per Cent Of The Economy, Those Two Sectors.

I Believe Os/2 Is Destined To Be The Most Important Operating System, And Possibly Program, Of All Time.

Bitcoin Is Mostly About Anonymous Transactions, And I Don't Think Over Time That's A Good Way To Go. I'm A Huge Believe In Digital Currency... But Doing It On An Anonymous Basis I Think That Leads To Some Abuses, So I'm Not Involved In Bitcoin.

U.k. Companies Are In Very International And Very Competitive Markets. If You Look At Pc Penetration In The U.k., It Is Very Similar To The United States Market.

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