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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.


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BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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