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BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago... BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive. BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k... BILL GATES I'm a geek. BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a... BILL GATES Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo... BILL GOLDBERG As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and... BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho... BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o... BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more... BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p... BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ... BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust... BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f... BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to... BILL GATES