"in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you"
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"We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule."
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"'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'."
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"The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking."
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"Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition."
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"Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption."
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"I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it"
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"Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day."
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"Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth.""
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"We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time."
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"The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important."
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"With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities."
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"Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software."
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"I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition."
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"I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born."
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"The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive."
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"Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally."
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"Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things."
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"In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively."
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"By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges."
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