"Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated."
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"In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well."
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"If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree."
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"If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley."
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"If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are."
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"In 1990, one in 10 children died before the age of five. That's now down to one in 20, and vaccines were the single biggest factor in that. Had it stayed at 10 percent, 122 million more children would have died."
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"I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient."
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"Software is more important than hardware."
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"Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe."
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"Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification."
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"It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away."
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"You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that."
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"I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system."
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"If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan."
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"Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod."
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"On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity."
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"Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great."
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"I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children."
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"There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively."
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"When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve."
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