"The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area."
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"Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual."
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"Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better."
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"In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?"
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"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems."
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"Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government."
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"Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not."
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"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important."
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"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."
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"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
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"It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."
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"Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them."
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"If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down."
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"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future."
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"In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car."
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"People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get."
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"Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied."
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"My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff."
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"We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems"
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"I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on."
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