"In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching."
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"Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things."
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"Africa is on the rise."
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"Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time."
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"We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)"
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"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
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"The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%."
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"Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it."
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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."
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"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs."
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"For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria."
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"If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day."
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"Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them."
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"Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people."
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"I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets."
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"The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate."
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"Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing."
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"As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical."
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"(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong."
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"If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity."
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