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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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China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

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I spend a lot of time reading.

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Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

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