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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

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The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confus...more

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Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global de...more

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Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularl...more

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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

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There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digi...more

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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing ...more

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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is...more

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By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect ...more

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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

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The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calcu...more

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The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New k...more