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China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. (Bill Gates)
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students. View quote
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The future of advertising is the Internet. View quote
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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. View quote
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Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. View quote
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The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. View quote
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents. View quote
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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. View quote
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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. View quote
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. View quote
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Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. (Bill Gates)
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. View quote
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Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. View quote
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The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. View quote
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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. View quote
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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. View quote
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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. View quote
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Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. View quote
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The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. View quote
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. View quote
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The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. (Bill Gates)
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. View quote
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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. View quote
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. View quote
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If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life. View quote
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