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When the PC was launched, people knew it was important. ↗

— Bill Gates

#knew #launched #pc #people

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. ↗

— Bill Gates

#being #bit #certainly #countries #developed

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. ↗

— Bill Gates

#because #buying #card #comes #credit

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. ↗

— Bill Gates

#dependent #energy #granted #house #industry

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. ↗

— Bill Gates

#any #author #go #i #i think

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career. ↗

— Bill Gates

#career #focus #i #need #people

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. ↗

— Bill Gates

#fill #homework #need #out #return

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#beforehand #done #film #had #head

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#any #bottom #bottom line #continuously #documented

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult