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Bill Gates
American
Businessman
Born:
Oct 28
,
1955
People
Think
Time
Will
World
You
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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.
Bill Gates
Events
Amazing
Three
Big
Visible
Record
More
Tend
Generations
Come
Industry
Island
Equipment
Mile
Even
Now
Nuclear
Two
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Bill Gates
Food
You
Agriculture
Energy
Prices
Moving
Land
Energy Production
Then
Production
Using
Growing
Actually
Competing
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Bill Gates
Buy
Change
People
Will
Difficult
Enough
Increasingly
Crops
Cheap
Feed
Climate
Climate Change
Fertilizer
Going
Which
Themselves
Grow
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
Bill Gates
Poverty
System
Rate
Adopted
China
Capitalist
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.
Bill Gates
Dreams
You
Strange
Experience
Give
Taking
Because
Malaria
Get
Just
Want
Which
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Bill Gates
Capitalism
People
PC
No-One
Like
Likes
PCs
Microsoft
Who
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
Bill Gates
Important
AIDS
Would
Threaten
Economy
Global
Global Economy
China
Epidemic
Certainly
Growth
Player
Widespread
Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
Bill Gates
Myself
People
Situation
Sense
Meeting
Bit
Out
Able
Never
Developed
Developed Countries
Put
Countries
Talking
Gotten
Up
Being
Them
Certainly
Less
Growing
Growing Up
If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
Bill Gates
Day
You
Every Day
Internet
Every
All Day
Count
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
Bill Gates
Energy
Civilization
Advanced
Advances
Really
Based
The microprocessor is a miracle.
Bill Gates
Miracle
Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
Bill Gates
More
Lifetime
Over
Course
Times
Than
American
Move
I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
Bill Gates
Satisfied
Never
Any
Microsoft
Product
Fully
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
Bill Gates
Hope
Best
Me
Better
Would
No Hope
Know
How
Doing
Getting
Getting Better
Coach
Who
Bridge
Satisfactory
Ever
Differently
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Bill Gates
Music
People
Single
Photos
Something
Purpose
Devices
Learn
Another
How
Lots
Lots And Lots
Up
Want
Video
Thing
Set
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
Bill Gates
Life
Wait
Parents
First
Baby
Weeks
Name
Because
According
Die
Often
Children
Custom
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Bill Gates
Food
Own
Our
Processing
Really
Should
Grow
Waste
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Bill Gates
Nature
Intelligence
System
Able
Genome
How
Replicate
Did
Human
Sequence
Eventually
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Bill Gates
Education
College
Those
About
Rates
Never
Unemployment
American
Double
Who
Among
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
Bill Gates
Needs
World
First
Hierarchy
Five
Human
Flat
Human Needs
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Bill Gates
People
Language
Meet
Only
Know
Comfortable
Overseas
Five
Languages
English
Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
Bill Gates
Commitment
Value
Big
Driving
Advertising
Big Commitment
Up
Microsoft
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
Bill Gates
Government
Business
Risks
Problems
Philanthropy
Easy
Solve
Taking
Come
Bigger
Them
Much
Should
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
Bill Gates
Time
You
Money
Gift
Rest
Spend
Once
Pretty
Longer
Polio
Because
Get
Just
Special
By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
Bill Gates
Education
People
School
Will
First
Young
Our
Those
Jobs
High
High School
Percent
New
Beyond
Ready
Get
Graduate
Estimated
Young People
Workers
Require
Start
Need
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.
Bill Gates
Post
Car
Own
Pay
Section
Out
Would
Rip
Classified
Could
Take
No-One
Allowed
Put
Ford
Dealer
Go
Sells
Different
Them
Engine
Washington
Washington Post
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