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William Henry Gates III (born 28 October 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is most famous as the co-founder of Microsoft, and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing [audience laughter] and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.
TED, February (2009)
The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear: We cannot maintain a level of one thousand or two thousand cases a year. Either we eradicate polio, or we return to the days of tens of thousands of cases per year. That is no alternative at all. We don't let children die because it is fatiguing to save them. Our commitment as a foundation is to work with partners until no children die from polio.
Regarding Bill And Melinda Gates' Polio Efforts (2009)
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
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I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years.
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If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault.
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Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
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640 K ought to be enough for anybody.
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A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.
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Life is not fair. Get used to it... Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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