"Don't let complexity stop you."
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"I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids."
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"Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future."
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"We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here."
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"You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code."
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"Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress."
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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
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"In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam."
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"Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive."
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"The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent."
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"Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business."
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"See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success"
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"Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
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"I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role."
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"Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up."
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"K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things."
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"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."
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"The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world."
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