American - Businessman | October 28, 1955 -
I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
Bill Gates
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Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
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What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'
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My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.
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In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
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In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
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One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'
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3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.
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My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
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