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1217 Philanthropist Quotes

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Academic Complex Culture Elegant
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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Able Communicate Day Even
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I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

Dorm Ever Facebook Literally
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Celebrate Failure Heed Important
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Advance Based Life Everyday
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Applied Automation Business Efficiency
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Basic Close Dream Finishing
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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Give Improve Need People
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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.

Ability Collaborate Ideas Customers
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Communication Computers Created Creativity
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Global Internet Square Tomorrow
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Morning Religion Resources Sunday
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Customers Greatest Learning Source
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Interwoven Business Information Talk
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Choices Fill Return Homework
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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Behavior Changing Got Lot
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Fairness Greed Innovation Microsoft
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Apple Competitors Fantastic Free
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Accept Always Change Coal
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Act Believe Moved People
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Banana Intellectual Life Property
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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Good Least Look Make
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Ahead Century Empower Leaders
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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.

City Cleaned Educating Fantastic
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I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Effects Enhances Freedoms Great
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Chance Deal Dreams Fact
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Business Gone Late Realize
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Business Change Entering Fantastic
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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.

Change Inaction Next Occur
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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Application Bureaucrat Draw Line
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Believe Expectations Form People
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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

Excellent Memory Most
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Day Fanatical Less Little
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Book Lot Nice Obscure
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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Digital Fantastic Lightweight Over
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I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Agricultural Enormous Lift Farmers
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Research Big Component Crucial
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Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Feel Fortunate Prescription Responsibility
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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Color Communities Correlation Educational
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In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

American Asian Classes Concepts
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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Government Money Risks Private
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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.

Certainly Countries Developed Gotten
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You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Area Capitalism Causes Diseases
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Disease Talk Hard About
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Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Anxious Author Legitimate Musician
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The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Careful Diseases Pick Tough
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Food Grow Own Processing
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Afford Countries Rich Overpay
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Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Cheap Dependent Energy Granted
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The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Always Energy Farming Trouble
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