"Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy."
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"By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same."
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"The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite."
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"The internet is just a passing fad."
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"DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience."
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"The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today."
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"The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld."
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"Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe."
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"Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down."
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"I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago."
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"Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is."
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"We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment."
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"I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work."
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"Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students."
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"China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them."
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"But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today."
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"Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone."
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"Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there."
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"When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity."
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"I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring."
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