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Taking A Look Back, One Big Reqret Is, I Left Harvard With No Real Awareness Of The Awful Inequities In The World. The Appalling Disparities Of Health And Wealth And Opportunity That Condemned Millions Of People To The Lives Of Despair. I Learned A Lot Here At Harvard About New Ideas And Economics, And Politics. I Got Great Exposure To The Advances Being Made In The Sciences. But Humanities Greatest Advances Are Not In Its Discoveries, But In How Those Discoveries Are Applied To Reduce Inequity.

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Taking A Look Back,

Bill Gates

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Taking A Look Back, One Big Reqret Is, I Left Harvard With No Real Awareness Of The Awful Inequities In The World. The Appalling Disparities Of Health And Wealth And Opportunity That Condemned Millions Of People To The Lives Of Despair. I Learned A Lot Here At Harvard About New Ideas And Economics, And Politics. I Got Great Exposure To The Advances Being Made In The Sciences. But Humanities Greatest Advances Are Not In Its Discoveries, But In How Those Discoveries Are Applied To Reduce Inequity.

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

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Sorghum Is Kind Of Unusual. It Can Go To Very High Heats, But It's Not As Productive In Most Environments As Maize Is.

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My Son Likes To Go See Mines And Electric Plants, Or The Large Hadron Collider, And We've Had A Chance To See A Lot Of Interesting Stuff.

Technology Is Unlocking The Innate Compassion We Have For Our Fellow Human Beings.

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

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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.

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

We Are Seeing Smarter Philanthropy, More Philanthropy, And That's True World Wide. So It's Kind Of A Movement That Has A Lot Of Accomplishments, Even Though As A Percentage Of The Economy, It's Still Only A Few Per Cent.

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It's Fantastic That Microsoft In The Cloud Space Is One Of Very Few Companies That's Got The Critical Mass, The Particular Emphasis On Helping Business Customers Get Up To That Cloud With All The Unique Requirements They Have. It's Very Exciting.

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[warren Buffett ] Met With All Sorts Of Different Groups About A Lot Of Different Things, But Yes, He Took The Time, He Listened And He Wanted To Understand About Some Of The Different Diseases And The Strength Of The American Role In Doing All These Things.

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I Love Nuclear. It Does This Radiation Thing That's Tricky. But They're Good Solutions. You Know, It Was Interesting; Recently, In Connecticut This Natural Gas Plant Blew Up 11 Guys. It Just Blew Them Up.

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People Care A Lot That The Usa Is Well Run, And People Globally Expect Us To Do Things In Upgrading Science And More.

Stolen's A Strong Word. It's Copyrighted Content That The Owner Wasn't Paid For.

No One Person Controls Microsoft. The Board And The Shareholders Decide Whether They Want To Have Me As Ceo.

I Hope Someday What People Can Do With Their Lives Depends On Their Talents And How Hard They Are Willing To Work, Rather Than On Where They Happen To Be Born.

I Believe That Every Life Is Valuable. That We Can Make Things Better. That Innovation Is The Key To A Bright Future. That We're Just Getting Started.

The Market Does Not Drive The Scientists, The Communicators, The Thinkers, The Government To Do The Right Things.

When You Write A Piece Of Software You Assume A Certain Type Of Hardware. If You Assume Hardware That's Too Powerful Then You Can't Sell Many Copies Cause Very Few People Have That Machine. If You Assume Hardware That's Too Simple Your Product Can't Do As Much.

People In Business Understand Paying Money To Be More Efficient. You Can Bootstrap Markets Where The Devices Are Too Expensive At First Because These Are So Valuable To Some People.

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How You Gather, Manage, And Use Information Will Determine Whether You Win Or Lose.

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It's An Experiment, And It's Probably Good To Have A Couple States Try It Out To See Before You Make That National Policy.

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Billionaires Should Never Be Responsible For Solving Problems, Because They're Not The Government.

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When I Was Young I Liked Taking Tests. I Happened To Be Good At It. Certain Subjects Came Easily, Like Math. All The Science Stuff. I Would Just Read The Textbooks In The First Few Days Of Class.

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I Have Not Met [donald] Trump And Discussed Any Issues With Him. There Have Been Republican Administrations Like The [george] Bush Administration Who Initiated This Aids Generosity. So It's Not Purely A Right-left Thing.

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Innovation Is Often The Hidden Thing, Because We Can't Put Numbers To It. And Yet It's The Thing That Defines The Way We Live, The Things We'd Like To Have For Everyone Whether It's Health Or Education.

Aids We're - Most Of These Diseases - We Are Down From The Peak. We're Down About 40 Per Cent From The Peak And If We Got The Right Vaccines, Which Are At The Early Stage Of Discovering, Then The Numbers Would Come Down Very Dramatically. So That's Why We Talk About It As An Emergency.

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.

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

If We [microsoft Corporation] Weren't Still Hiring Great People And Pushing Ahead At Full Speed, It Would Be Easy To Fall Behind And Become A Mediocre Company. Fear Should Guide You, But It Should Be Latent. I Have Some Latent Fear. I Consider Failure On A Regular Basis.

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You Can't Have A Rigid View That All New Taxes Are Evil.

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The Media Covers What’s New – And Millions Of People Dying Is Nothing New. So It Stays In The Background, Where It’s Easier To Ignore. But Even When We Do See It Or Read About It, It’s Difficult To Keep Our Eyes On The Problem. It’s Hard To Look At Suffering If The Situation Is So Complex That We Don’t Know How To Help. And So We Look Away.

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Rich Countries Can Afford To Overpay For Things.

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.

To Create A New Standard It Takes Something That's Not Just A Little Bit Different. It Takes Something That's Really New And Really Captures People's Imagination. And The Macintosh, Of All The Machines I've Ever Seen, Is The Only One That Meets That Standard.

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Who Can Afford To Do Professional Work For Nothing? What Hobbyist Can Put Three Man-years Into Programming, Finding All Bugs, Documenting His Product, And Distributing It For Free?

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This Whole Phenomenon Of The Computer In A Library Is An Amazing Thing.

The Finest Pieces Of Software Are Those Where One Individual Has A Complete Sense Of Exactly How The Program Works. To Have That, You Have To Really Love The Program And Concentrate On Keeping It Simple, To An Incredible Degree.

In Inner-city, Low-income Communities Of Color, There's Such A High Correlation In Terms Of Educational Quality And Success.

Treatment Without Prevention Is Simply Unsustainable.

Living On $6 A Day Means You Have A Refrigerator, A Tv, A Cell Phone, Your Children Can Go To School. That's Not Possible On $1 A Day.

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.

If You Take From The Most Wealthy And Give To The Least Wealthy, It's Good. It Tries To Balance Out.

The Returns From Investing In Poor People Are Just As Great As The Returns From Investing In The Business World... And Have Even More Meaning

Our Teachers Deserve Better Feedback.

From The Day Microsoft Was Started, The Only Constraint To Our Growth Has Been Attracting Ah, More Great Programmers, Very Smart, Committed, Ah, People. And So We're Always On... On The Look For Ah, That Kind Of Person.

I Am Not Topper In My University But All Toppers Are Working In My Microsoft Company.

I Read A Lot Of Obscure Books And It Is Nice To Open A Book.

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.

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.

Oh, I Think There Are A Lot Of People Who Would Be Buying And Selling Online Today That Go Up There And They Get The Information, But Then When It Comes Time To Type In Their Credit Card They Think Twice Because They're Not Sure About How That Might Get Out And What That Might Mean For Them.

The Poor Can't Wait. Philanthropists Needed To Carry On Being Generous.

The Two Areas That Are Changing... Are Information Technology And Medical Technology. Those Are The Things That The World Will Be Very Different 20 Years From Now Than It Is Today.

At The End Of The Day, Natural-gas Peakers Sit Back There And Get Financed So That The Midwest Corridor Can Have A Huge [period] Of Four To Five Days Of No Wind. The Peakers Are Running Big Time To Make That Up, Because That Is The Swing Piece That Can Always Be Turned On.

Vision Without Execution Is Daydreaming.

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

Human Condition

If You Go Back To 1800, Everybody Was Poor. I Mean Everybody. The Industrial Revolution Kicked In, And A Lot Of Countries Benefited, But By No Means Everyone.

When You Are Failing, You Are Forced To Be Creative, To Dig Deep And Think, Night And Day.

This Is Not About Trade, No One Is A Stronger Supporter Of Capitalism And Trade Than I Am. This Is About Sovereignty And Whether A Country Has The Right To Set Its Own Public Health Policies.

If You Withdraw The Incredible Focus On Polio, It Will Spread Back, And In Poor Countries You'll Get Something Like 100,000 Cases A Year. So By Being Very Intense And Getting The Cases Down To Zero, What You Do Is You Avoid All The Future Cases.

Success Is A Lousy Teacher. It Makes You Think You Know What You're Doing.

Thanks To Quality Education, Israel Is One Of The Most Advanced Countries In The World .. Israel Is Advancing In High-tech Even More Than Other Developed Countries.

More And More Software Would Just Increase The Number Of Tasks That The Computer Would Help Solve.

Kenya’s M-pesa Proves That When People Are Empowered, They Will Use Digital Tech To Innovate On Their Own Behalf.

I Don't Think You're As Capable Of Handling Lack Of Sleep Or Whatever Challenges You Throw At Your Body As You Get Older. However, I Never Missed A Day Of Work.

The General Idea Of The Rich Helping The Poor, I Think, Is Important. That Your Sense Of Justice Says, Why Should Rich Kids - Who Barely Get These Diseases And Almost Never Die Of Them - Why Should They Get The Vaccines, When Poor Kids, Who Actually Do Die From These Diseases, Don't Get Those Things? It's An Unbelievable Inequity That There Isn't That Access.

It's Paradoxical That, When You Have Better Health, Families Choose To Have Less Children, Because They've Been Having Enough Children So That They Can Be Sure That A Few Of Them Will Survive And Take Care Of Them. So As Health Improves, Then All The Other Problems Are Dramatically Easier To Tackle.

We All Have The Chance To Create A World Where Extreme Poverty Is The Exception Rather Than The Rule.

Ridiculous Sums Of Money Can Be Confusing.

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Automation Applied To An Inefficient Operation Will Magnify The Inefficiency.

Whenever You Have A Few Setbacks, The Idea That Half As Many Children Are Dying Now As Back In 1990 And So... It Was Over 12 Million A Year, Now It's Less Than 6 Million A Year. We Have A Clear Path To Get That Under 3 Million A Year And We Know What To Do. And This Generation Of Young Africans Is A Very Large Group.

We're Only At The Beginning Of What We Have To Do Here.

The Global Fund Is A Central Player In The Progress Being Achieved On Hiv, Tb And Malaria. It Channels Resources To Help Countries Fight These Diseases. I Believe In Its Impact Because I Have Seen It Firsthand.

I Went To A Public School Through Sixth Grade, And Being Good At Tests Wasn't Cool.

The Most Meaningful Way To Differentiate Your Company From Your Competitors, The Best Way To Put Distance Between You And The Crowd Is To Do An Outstanding Job With Information. How You Gather, Manage And Use Information Will Determine Whether You Win Or Lose.

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I Think Any Statement About Stock Prices Is Always Suspect Unless It's Made By Warren Buffett.

We Certainly See Opportunities In Vietnam For Talented People To Have Jobs In The It Sector, Including The Improvement Of The Efficiency Of The Economy And The Government.

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