American - Businessman | October 28, 1955 -
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Bill Gates
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China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
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The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.
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I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
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The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
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Common Core is a big win for education.
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
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