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Sometimes, I Think My Most Important Job As A Ceo Is To Listen For Bad News. If You Don't Act On It, Your People Will Eventually Stop Bringing Bad News To Your Attention And That Is The Beginning Of The End.

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Sometimes, I Think My

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Sometimes, I Think My Most Important Job As A Ceo Is To Listen For Bad News. If You Don't Act On It, Your People Will Eventually Stop Bringing Bad News To Your Attention And That Is The Beginning Of The End.

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Creativity Allows People To Be Effective.

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...one Of The Most Inventive Forms Of Creative Capitalism Involves Someone We All Know Very Well. A Few Years Ago, I Was Sitting In A Bar Here In Davos With Bono. Late At Night, After A Few Drinks, He Was On Fire, Talking About How We Could Get A Percentage Of Each Purchase From Civic-minded Companies To Help Change The World. He Kept Calling People, Waking Them Up, And Handing Me The Phone To Show Me The Interest.

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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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The Interview Process Tests Not What The Applicant Knows, But How Well They Can Process Tricky Questions: If You Wanted To Figure Out How Many Times On Average You Would Have To Flip The Pages Of The Manhattan Phone Book To Find A Specific Name, How Would You Approach The Problem? If A Spider Fell To The Bottom Of A 50-foot Well, And Each Day Climbed Up 3 Feet And Slipped Back 2, How Many Days Would It Take The Spider To Get Out Of The Well? .

For All These Infectious Diseases, The Goal Is To Eventually Get Rid Of Them. And To Do That We Need To Invent New Tools, But Nobody Was Doing That Because There Was No Money To Buy On Behalf Of The Poorest, Even The Existing Tools.

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The Concept Of This So-called "terrapower Reactor" Is That You, In The Same Reactor, You Both Burn And Breed. So, Instead Of Making Plutonium And Then Extracting It, We Take Uranium - The 99.3 Percent That You Normally Don't Do Anything With - We Convert That, And We Burn It.

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If You Count E-mail, I'm On The Internet All Day, Every Day.

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

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.

The Pc Has Improved The World In Just About Every Area You Can Think Of. Amazing Developments In Communications, Collaboration And Efficiencies. New Kinds Of Entertainment And Social Media. Access To Information And The Ability To Give A Voice People Who Would Never Have Been Heard.

In American Math Classes, We Teach A Lot Of Concepts Poorly Over Many Years. In The Asian Systems They Teach You Very Few Concepts Very Well Over A Few Years.

I Think There's Even A Chance That [r&d And Innovation Budgets] Might Be Increased [during Donald Trump Administration] And We Should Go And Make That Case To The Executive Branch, To The Congress.

Until Recently, Over 98 Percent Of Teachers Just Got One Word Of Feedback: Satisfactory. If All My Bridge Coach Ever Told Me Was That I Was 'satisfactory,' I Would Have No Hope Of Ever Getting Better.

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I Have A Particular Relationship With Vinod Khosla Because He's Got A Lot Of Very Interesting Science-based Energy Startups.

Very Interesting

The Key Thing You Can Do To Reduce Population Growth Is Actually Improve Health.

To Be A Good Professional Engineer, Always Start To Study Late For Exams Because It Teaches You How To Manage Time And Tackle Emergencies.

Digital Technology Has Several Features That Can Make It Much Easier For Teachers To Pay Special Attention To All Their Students.

The Quality Of Research In The U.s. Is Absolutely The Best.

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.

Whether It's Google Or Apple Or Free Software, We've Got Some Fantastic Competitors And It Keeps Us On Our Toes.

The Idea That You Encourage Companies To Take Their Innovative Thinkers And Think About The Most Needy - Even Beyond The Market Opportunities - That's Something That Appropriately Ought To Be Done.

Personally, I'd Like To See More Of Our Leaders Take A Technocratic Approach To Solving Our Biggest Problems.

What We're Really After Is Simply That People Acquire A Legal License For Windows For Each Computer They Own Before They Move On To Linux Or Sun Solaris Or Bsd Or Os/2 Or Whatever.

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

Legacy Is A Stupid Thing! I Don't Want A Legacy.

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

The Potential Financial Reward For Building The 'next Windows' Is So Great That There Will Never Be A Shortage Of New Technologies Seeking To Challenge It.

Training The Workforce Of Tomorrow With Today's High Schools Is Like Trying To Teach Kids About Today's Computers On A 50-year-old Mainframe.

In Order For The United States To Do The Right Things For The Long Term, It Appears To Be Helpful For Us To Have The Prospect Of Humiliation. Sputnik Helped Us Fund Good Science - Really Good Science: The Semiconductor Came Out Of It.

So It's An Absolute Lie That Has Killed Thousands Of Kids. Because The Mothers Who Heard That Lie, Many Of Them Didn't Have Their Kids Take Either Pertussis Or Measles Vaccine, And Their Children Are Dead Today. And So The People Who Go And Engage In Those Anti-vaccine Efforts -- You Know, They, They Kill Children. It's A Very Sad Thing, Because These Vaccines Are Important.

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.

Haiti Should Remind Us All That There Is An Immediate Need To Invest In And Promote Long-term Development Projects That Are Sustainable, Scalable, And Proven To Work.

Ninety Percent Of The Cases Of Polio Are In Security-vulnerable Areas.

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting Idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

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We're Changing The World With Technology.

Changing The World

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

The Internet Is Becoming The Town Square For The Global Village Of Tomorrow.

I Can Understand Wanting To Have A Million Dollars But Once You Get Beyond That, I Have To Tell You, It's The Same Hamburger.

It’s Been Proven That Of All The Interventions To Reduce Poverty, Improving Agricultural Productivity Is The Best.

Finding Information Is Either A Software Question Or A Question Of How Much Information Is Online.

Software Is Definitely Engineering. It's Different In That We Take On Novel Tasks Every Time. It's Not Like Building A Certain Bridge That Is Virtually Identical To Some Previous Bridge Or Some Previous Building.

The Uk Is A Very International Country.

The Part Of Uranium That's Fissile - When You Hit It With A Neutron, It Splits In Two - Is About 0.7%. The Reactors We Have Today Are Burning That 0.7%.

You Will Not Make $60,000 A Year Right Out Of High School. You Won't Be A Vice-president With A Car Phone Until You Earn Both.

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

I Think That Our Progress On Key Diseases Over The Next Several Decades Is Going To Be Pretty Amazing And So I Am Very Interested In That.

Treatment Without Prevention Is Simply Unsustainable.

You Can Make Money And You Can Make Excuses, But You Can Never Make Money Out Of Excuses

I Set A Rule That People Weren't Allowed To Send Good News Unless They Sent Around An Equal Amount Of Bad News. We Had To Get A Balanced Picture. In Fact, I Kind Of Favored Just Hearing About The Accounts We Were Losing Because ... Bad News Is Generally More Actionable Than Good News.

Well I Think Any Author Or Musician Is Anxious To Have Legitimate Sales Of Their Products, Partly So They're Rewarded For Their Success, Partly So They Can Go On And Do New Things.

Eventually You Won't Think Of 'the Internet Business.' You'll Think Of It More Like News, Weather, Sports, But Even That Taxonomy Isn't Clear.

How Much Further Beyond Basic Research The Role Of The Government Should Be, You Could Have A Really Good Debate About It. Almost Nobody Would Say It's Zero. But That's Where At Least We Need The Private Sector To Play A Big Role.

We All Sort Of Do Want Incentives For Creative People To Still Exist At A Certain Level. You Know, Maybe Rock Stars Shouldn't Make As Much; Who Knows? But You Want As Much Creativity To Take Place In The Future As Took Place In The Past.

Innovation Is A Good Thing. The Human Condition - Put Aside Bioterrorism And A Few Footnotes - Is Improving Because Of Innovation.

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Reward Worthy Failure - Experimentation.

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