"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
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"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
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"I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV."
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"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."
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"Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one."
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"Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome."
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"You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity."
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"Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement."
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"I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action."
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"If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business."
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"Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do."
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"The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose."
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"A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."
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"Patience is a key element of success."
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"If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected."
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"Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do."
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"The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before."
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"We're changing the world with technology."
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"We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering."
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"By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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