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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.

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The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

Firsts, Five, Next, Turn, Years

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

People, Say, Trying, Way

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

Doe, Exist, Optimistic Life, Possible, Universe, Wells

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

Budgets, Cutting, Elderly, Resources, Think, Thinking

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Imagination, Team Building, Microsoft, Company

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

Experience, Poverty, Bigs, Complexity, Big, Lives

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

Culture, Deep, Deep Understanding, Food, Man, Men

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

Countries, Country, Gmos, Look, Make, Safety

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Education, Life, Make, Phone, Right, School

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Done, Generations, Interesting, Macintosh, Software

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out. '

Assigned, Educational, Figure, Math, Self Confidence, Taught

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out.

Balance, Give, Giving, Take, Wealthy

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Inspirational, Money, Motivational, Paul, Thought, Writing

With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing, so it's not this question of whether you solve it or you don't. The chance of completely solving the problems has long odds. But really, the thing is that you get to save the first child, the second child, the third child. You can just feel good about that.

Children, Good, Life, Long, Odds, Solving

If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know. " You should really get involved in that.

Class, Field, Gets, Hero, Learnings, People

I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

Countries, Country, Progress, Studying, Years

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.

Big, Crucial, Government, Improves, Innovation, Play

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

Infrastructure, People, Video, Watch, Watches

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

Dad, Math, Physics, Science, Think, Thinking

So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

Your Side, Earthquakes, Feet, Human, Chernobyl

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