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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. ↗

— Bill Gates

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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

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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#empowering #get #i #important #involved

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. ↗

— Bill Gates

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Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. ↗

— Bill Gates

#change #climate #climate change #deserves #huge

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. ↗

— Bill Gates

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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. ↗

— Bill Gates

#enormous #farmers #firsthand #hunger #i

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. ↗

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

#behavior #changing #got #into #lot

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. ↗

— Bill Gates

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