"It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life."
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"Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires."
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"We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading."
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"Make it just like a Mac."
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"It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best."
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"If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!"
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"Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam."
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"There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect."
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"I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them."
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"Creativity allows people to be effective."
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"What I do best is share my enthusiasm."
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"Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say."
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"Being maniacal about something is very helpful."
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"Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it."
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"Information work is thinking work."
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"I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts."
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"About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
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"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."
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"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time."
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"The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the"
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