"Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student."
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"I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever."
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"My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy."
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"The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC."
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"The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it."
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"I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger."
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"If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble."
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"The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again."
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"If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis."
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"Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy."
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"The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can."
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"In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be."
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"Often you have to rely on intuition."
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"Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination."
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"We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most."
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"The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low."
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"These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation."
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"The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need."
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"Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was."
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"China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%."
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