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

— Bill Gates

#believe #facts #fund #get #i

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. ↗

— Bill Gates

#create #exactly #focus #foundation #i

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

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

#back #fortune #given #go #high

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

#game #innovation #nationalistic

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

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof. ↗

— Bill Gates

#kind #panels #really #roof #solar