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The Common Thread For Everything I Do Is This Idea Of A Web-services Architecture. What Does That Mean? It Means Taking Components Of Software And Systems And Having Them Be Self-describing, So That You Can Aim Them, Ask Them What Their Capabilities Are, And Communicate With Them Using A Standard Protocol.

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The Common Thread For Everything I Do Is This Idea Of A Web-services Architecture. What Does That Mean? It Means Taking Components Of Software And Systems And Having Them Be Self-describing, So That You Can Aim Them, Ask Them What Their Capabilities Are, And Communicate With Them Using A Standard Protocol.

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In The U.s., We Believe The Best Way To Improve Lives Is To Improve Public Education.

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I Went Public Too Soon. Stay Private As Long As You Can.

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The Green Revolution Focused On The Big Three - Maize, Rice And Wheat - And The Green Revolution Did Not Adapt The Big Three To African Conditions, Other Than South Africa, As Much As They Should Have.

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There's No Magic Line Between An Application And An Operating System That Some Bureaucrat In Washington Should Draw.

If Somebody Is Considering Being Willing To Go Out And Work In The Field In Global Health, Those Are A Particular Class Of Heroes Because It's Hard To Work In Those Places. Our Foundation Gets So Many Of Our Learnings From People Who've Been Out There And Seen, "this Tool Is Not Going To Work There, There's More Of A Problem Here Than You Know." You Should Really Get Involved In That.

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A Company Needs To Have Good Business Reflexes, To Be Able To Marshal Its Forces In A Crisis Or In Response To Any Unplanned Event.

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Hunger And Poverty

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Killing Each Other

The Answer Is Simple, And Harsh. The Market Did Not Reward Saving The Lives Of These Children, And Governments Did Not Subsidize It. So The Children Died Because Their Mothers And Their Fathers Had No Power In The Market And No Voice In The System.

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Human Condition

There Are No Significant Bugs In Our Released Software That Any Significant Number Of Users Want Fixed.

The Next Time Someone Tells You We Can Trim The Budget By Cutting Aid, I Hope You Will Ask Whether It Will Come At The Cost Of More People Dying.

Your Most Unhappy Customers Are Your Greatest Source Of Learning.

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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.

We Need To Start Thinking About The Future Of Food If We Are Going To Feed 9 Billion People In A Way That Does Not Destroy Our Environment.

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The Term, Information At Your Fingertips, Is To Remind People What A Broad Role The Personal Computer Will Be Playing. It's Not A Computation Device, It's Not A Word Processing Or A Spreadsheet Device. It's A Window Onto The World Of Information.

I Didn't Completed My University Education

University Education

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.

Microsoft's Philosophy Is To 'do Things Better.' And Vista Has Given Us Lots Of Opportunity To Do That.

Good Programmers Stay Open Minded To That Even Though There Is No Obvious Way To Improve What They've Done They... They Keep Looking And They Listen To What Other People Have To Say.

By Improving Health, Empowering Women, Population Growth Comes Down.

The Ability Of A Successful Company To Add Functionality To Its Product Has Long Been Upheld.

Does The Universe Exist Only For Me? It's Possible. If So, It's Sure Going Well For Me, I Must Admit.

Optimistic Life

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I Was A Kind Of Hyper-intense Person In My Twenties And Very Impatient.

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Kids Are Taking Pcs And The Internet To New Heights. They're The Ones That Are Designing The Cutting-edge Web Sites.

I'm Certainly Well Taken Care Of In Terms Of Food And Clothes ... Money Has No Utility To Me Beyond A Certain Point. Its Utility Is Entirely In Building An Organization And Getting The Resources Out To The Poorest In The World.

I Believe That If You Show People The Problems And You Show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act.

We're All Responsible For Creating A Polio-free World While We Still Can.

When You Have Money In Hand,only You Forget Who Are You .but When You Do Not Have Any Money In Your Hand,the Whole World Forget Who You Are.it's Life.

The World Today Has 6.8 Billion People...that's Headed Up To About 9 Billion. If We Do A Really Great Job On Vaccines, Health Care, Reproductive Health Services, We Could Lower That By Perhaps 10 To 15 Percent.

Energy Is Very Primal Stuff And There Are A Lot Of Leads That Are Promising, Still At A Fairly Risky Stage, But Over The Next Decade Some Of These Breakthrough Approaches Are Going To Pay Out, And U.s. Research And U.s. Leadership On This Should Be Part Of How It Gets Solved.

If You Give People Tools, And They Use Their Natural Abilities And Their Curiosity, They Will Develop Things In Ways That Will Surprise You Very Much Beyond What You Might Have Expected.

This Is A Very Exciting Time In The World Of Information. It`s Not Just That The Personal Computer Has Come Along As A Great Tool. The Whole Pace Of Business Is Moving Faster. Globalization Is Forcing Companies To Do Things In New Ways.

I Am Surprised That In Various Countries, Whether It's The U.k. Or The U.s., You See Isolationist Tendencies That Would Tend To Work Against The Co-operation, Whether It's Climate Change, Immigration, Innovation, Helping The Very Poorest. Those Are Things Where You Want To Think Across Country Boundaries And See A Win-win-type Solution.

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.

Our Success Has Really Been Based On Partnerships From The Very Beginning.

In My View, Investing In Public Libraries Is An Investment In The Nation's Future.

When You Have A Product That Has Zero Sales, It Is Easy For People To Say Whatever They Want About It And Almost Fantasize About It.

The General Idea Of The Rich Helping The Poor, I Think, Is Important.

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There Are Gmo Skeptics More In Europe Maybe Than In Other Places, But Not Exclusively.

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Since When Has The World Of Computer Software Design Been About What People Want? This Is A Simple Question Of Evolution. The Day Is Quickly Coming When Every Knee Will Bow Down To A Silicon Fist, And You Will All Beg Your Binary Gods For Mercy.

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.

Like Any Well Designed Software Product, Windows Is Designed, Developed And Tested As An Integrated Whole.

Robotics And Other Combinations Will Make The World Pretty Fantastic Compared With Today.

The Greatest Thing You Can Do For Your Competition - Hire Poorly.

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

I Believe That The World Will Be A Safer Place If There Is Enough Food To Go Around, That It Will Be A More Stable Place If Children Grow Up With Opportunities Instead Of Frustrations. Furthermore, I Can Only Assume That If The United States Plays A Role In Helping To Create Prosperous Societies, We Will Have Friends To Call On In Times Of Need.

My Mom Was On The United Way Group That Decides How To Allocate The Money And Looks At All The Different Charities And Makes The Very Hard Decisions About Where That Pool Of Funds Is Going To Go.

Software Substitution, Whether It's For Drivers Or Waiters Or Nurses ... It's Progressing. ... Technology Over Time Will Reduce Demand For Jobs, Particularly At The Lower End Of Skill Set. ... 20 Years From Now, Labor Demand For Lots Of Skill Sets Will Be Substantially Lower. I Don’t Think People Have That In Their Mental Model.

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