"Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings."
45+ Bill Gates Thoughts That Are Truly Inspirational
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
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"The best teacher is very interactive."
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
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"Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable."
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
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"The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important."
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"We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve."
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"Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point."
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"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
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"Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up."
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"The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice."
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Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
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Personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
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I get more spam than anyone I know.
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Our teachers deserve better feedback.
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The future of advertising is the Internet.
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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
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This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
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If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
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The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
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I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
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The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
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I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.