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Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ↗

— Bill Gates

#co2 #create #electricity #emerging #energy

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

— Bill Gates

#competitors #fantastic #free #free software #google

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. ↗

— Bill Gates

#able #back #because #being #creative

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. ↗

— Bill Gates

#day #debt #e-mail #every #every day

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. ↗

— Bill Gates

#behavior #changing #got #into #lot

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. ↗

— Bill Gates

#bit #cut #games #i #i think

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. ↗

— Bill Gates

#agriculture #competing #energy #energy production #first-class

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

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #careful #diseases #few #pick