"Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong."
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"SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail."
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"The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying."
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"Everything on the internet is real god damn it!"
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"The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system."
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"Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue."
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"Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy."
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"I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese."
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"Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs."
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"The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about."
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"If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them."
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"I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes."
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"From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person."
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"Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose."
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"China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario."
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"In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically."
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"Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects."
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"We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners."
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"The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on."
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"Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs."
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