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We Paired This Announcement Of The R&d [commitment] With The So-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, Which Is 27 [major Investors] Saying, "hey, We'll Put Significant Money Into [energy Innovations] When They're Ready To Spin Out Probably Into Startup Companies."

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Bill Gates

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We Paired This Announcement Of The R&d [commitment] With The So-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, Which Is 27 [major Investors] Saying, "hey, We'll Put Significant Money Into [energy Innovations] When They're Ready To Spin Out Probably Into Startup Companies."

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Human Condition

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Information Flow

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In Terms Of Fast Food And Deep Understanding Of The Culture Of Fast Food, I'm Your Man.

Deep Understanding

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We [corbis] Make It So Easy To Call Up Images, Whether Art Or People Or Beaches Or Sunsets Or Nobel Prize Winners.

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.

Software Will Get To Be Somewhat More Mature, Ah, But It Will Never Be As Predictable As Most Areas Of Engineering.

I Believe In Innovation And That The Way You Get Innovation Is You Fund Research And You Learn The Basic Facts.

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 Ceo's Role In Raising A Company's Corporate Iq Is To Establish An Atmosphere That Promotes Knowledge Sharing And Collaboration.

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

In Business, The Idea Of Measuring What You Are Doing, Picking The Measurements That Count Like Customer Satisfaction And Performance... You Thrive On That.

You Don't Have To Own A Tv Network To Go Out And Do A Cool Show.

The Obvious Mathematical Breakthrough Would Be Development Of An Easy Way To Factor Large Prime Numbers.

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

My Fascination Is Broadly With Biology And The Fact That Our Increased Understanding Of Biology Allows For Breakthroughs In A Broad Set Of Diseases.

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