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When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

From Bill Gates

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.

From Bill Gates

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

From Bill Gates

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

From Bill Gates

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

From Bill Gates

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

From Bill Gates

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

From Bill Gates

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

From Bill Gates

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

From Bill Gates

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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