"If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists."
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"If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that."
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"I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing."
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"I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success."
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"Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid."
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"Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions."
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"If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles."
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"Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that."
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"We’re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you’ll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing."
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"Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas."
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"Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?"
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"Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company."
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"Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts."
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"In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable."
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"There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure."
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"Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'"
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"I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product."
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"The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era."
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"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
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"3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before."
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