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The Scientific Understanding Of Some Of These [childhood] Diseases Is Advancing Quite Rapidly. There's Some Things Like Premature Birth Or Nutrition, First Day Deaths That We Need A Lot More Insights So That We Can Build The Tools To Solve Those Problems.

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The Scientific Understanding Of Some Of These [childhood] Diseases Is Advancing Quite Rapidly. There's Some Things Like Premature Birth Or Nutrition, First Day Deaths That We Need A Lot More Insights So That We Can Build The Tools To Solve Those Problems.

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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.

If You Can't Make It Good, At Least Make It Look Good.

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We're At The Point Now Where The Challenge Isn't How To Communicate Effectively With E-mail; It's Ensuring That You Spend Your Time On The E-mail That Matters Most.

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Certainly There's A Phenomenon Around Open Source. You Know Free Software Will Be A Vibrant Area. There Will Be A Lot Of Neat Things That Get Done There.

I Agree With People Like Richard Dawkins That Mankind Felt The Need For Creation Myths. Before We Really Began To Understand Disease And The Weather And Things Like That, We Sought False Explanations For Them. Now Science Has Filled In Some Of The Realm – Not All – That Religion Used To Fill.

Capitalism Has Worked Very Well. Anyone Who Wants To Move To North Korea Is Welcome.

Students Deserve Great Teachers. And Teachers Deserve The Support They Need To Become Great.

The World Won't Care About Your Self-esteem. The World Will Expect You To Accomplish Something Before You Feel Good About Yourself.

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Everything On The Internet Is Real God Damn It!

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

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Two Years From Now, Spam Will Be Solved.

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Humanity’s Greatest Advances Are Not In Its Discoveries – But In How Those Discoveries Are Applied To Reduce Inequity. Whether Through Democracy, Strong Public Education, Quality Health Care, Or Broad Economic Opportunity – Reducing Inequity Is The Highest Human Achievement.

Microsoft Has Had Many, Many Successful Products. I'm Committed To One Company. This Is The Industry I've Decided To Work In.

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You've Got To Be Willing To Read Other People's Code, Then Write Your Own, Then Have Other People Review Your Code.

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The Internet Is The Easiest Thing To Get Into. To Be An Internet Retailer, You Just Get That Url.

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There's No Such Thing As Going To A Soapbox And Saying, 'the Government's Corrupt,' And Not Having The Intelligence Service See Your Face. In The Digital World, That Can Be Done.

Intelligence Services

A Lot Of The Things That Will Really Improve The World Fortunately Aren't Dependent On Washington Doing Something Different.

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Death Is Something We Really Understand Extremely Well.

Convert Bad News To Good News.

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.

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

Helping Convene Global Stakeholders To Establish A Set Of Measurable, Actionable And Consensus-built Goals Focused On Extreme Poverty Is Invaluable.

The Vision Is That People Should Have The Ultimate In Convenience. Being Able To Get The Things They Care About On The Appropriate Device.

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Often You Have To Rely On Intuition.

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Windows 2000 Already Contains Features Such As The Human Discipline Component, Where The Pc Can Send An Electric Shock Through The Keyboard If The Human Does Something That Does Not Please Windows.

We're Still Missing About A Dozen Vaccines That Will Make A Huge Difference. For Adults, We've Got Hiv And Tb Are Still Huge; For Kids Malaria Is Still Killing A Half Million Kids A Year Out Of That 6 Million. We Probably Need Some Vaccines, But We Need A Little More Data To Make Sure We're Getting The Vaccines That Will Save The Most Lives.

When Aids Emergency Broke Out And Was Killing Millions In Africa, The Global Fund Was Created So That A Level Of Generosity Would Show Up And Buy The Medicines To Save Those Lives.

Having Kids Has Been A Fantastic Thing For Me. It's Meant That I'm A Little More Balanced. In My Twenties I Worked Massively, Hardly Took Vacation At All. Now, I, With The Help Of My Wife, I'm Always Making Sure I've Got A Good Balance Of How I Spend My Time.

You Know, I'm A Big Believer In Touch And Digital Reading, But I Still Think That Some Mixture Of Voice, The Pen And A Real Keyboard - In Other Words A Netbook - Will Be The Mainstream On That.

The Computer Will Live Your Life, Listen To You And Understand You Better Than Humans Can.

Exposure From A Young Age To The Realities Of The World Is A Super-big Thing.

Finally, Assuming That Many Of Those Are Fulfilled, Which Won't Be Easy In Tight Budget Times, We're Taking The Supply Side At The Basic Research Level, Because That's Where Government Is Absolutely Fundamental.

Microsoft Has Had Clear Competitors In The Past. It's A Good Thing We Have Museums To Document That.

The Vision Is Really About Empowering Workers Giving Them All The Information About What’s Going On So They Can Do A Lot More Than They’ve Done In The Past.

Government Investment Unlocks A Huge Amount Of Private Sector Activity, But The Basic Research That We Put Into It Work That Led To The Internet And Lots Of Great Companies And Jobs, The Basic Work We Put Into The Health Care Sector, Where It's Over $30 Billion A Year In R&d That Led The Biotech And Pharma Jobs. And It Creates Jobs And It Creates New Technologies That Will Be Productized. But The Government Has To Prime The Pump Here. The Basic Ideas, As In Those Other Industries, Start With Government Investment.

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.

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

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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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