American - Businessman | October 28, 1955 -
Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
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China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
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When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.
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Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
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It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
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I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
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Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
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