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"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."
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"It's hard to improve public education - that's clear."
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"Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved."
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"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."
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"If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR"
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"I'm not a macroeconomics person."
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"Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money."
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"Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off."
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"The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done."
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"The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough."
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"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."
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"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical."
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"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
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"Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things."
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"I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can."
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"Computers and games don't waste time - people do."
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"Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole."
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"If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right."
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"Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy."
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