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You Don't Go To Other Books And Take Little Pieces Because Although Say A Romantic Scene May Have Been Many Times Before All The Details Of Who It Is, Where It Is, Are So Intertwined In That Text That It's Easier To Write It From Scratch.

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Self Confidence

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Headlines, In A Way, Are What Mislead You Because Bad News Is A Headline, And Gradual Improvement Is Not.

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The Challenge Here Is To Design A System Where Market Incentives, Including Profits And Recognition, Drive Those Principles To Do More For The Poor. I Like To Call This Idea Creative Capitalism, An Approach Where Governments, Businesses, And Nonprofits Work Together To Stretch The Reach Of Market Forces So That More People Can Make A Profit, Or Gain Recognition, Doing Work That Eases The World's Inequities.

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The Only Thing I Understand Deeply, Because In My Teens I Was Thinking About It, And Every Year Of My Life, Is Software. So I'll Never Be Hands-on On Anything Except Software.

Whatever They Announce, They Announce. They're In Their Honeymoon Period, And Anything They Announce Gets Hype ... They Will Obviously Branch Out Beyond Internet Search, But I Think The Expectations Won't Live Up To Reality.

The Early Personal Computers Were Not Very Powerful So The Idea Of Feeding Their Program Into A Small Amount Of Memory Requires Immense Skill.

The Next Big Invention That Will Change The Way We Live Should Be Things Like Ways Of Generating Energy Like Electricity.

My Job Is About The Most Fun Thing I Do, But I Have A Broad Set Of Interests, Going Places, Reading Things, Doing Things.

Computers And Games Don't Waste Time - People Do.

My Dream Is That Every Child Has Enough Food To Eat, Good Medical Care, And The Chance To Go To School And Even Attend College.

To Succeed, You Also Have To Know How To Make Choices And How To Think More Broadly.

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