"Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM."
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"In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself."
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"People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing."
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"Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old."
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"I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English."
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"Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right."
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"Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device."
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"Hey, size works against excellence."
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"I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government."
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"We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act"
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"What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever."
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"The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best."
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"The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest."
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"No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO."
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"Newspaper readership is still growing in India."
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"Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download."
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"Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense."
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"In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's."
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"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
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"We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives."
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