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Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned t
3.0 · 40 votes · 62 reads
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold b
3.9 · 63 votes · 191 reads
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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
3.8 · 25 votes · 2 reads
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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
3.5 · 9 votes · 124 reads
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
4.2 · 14 votes · 162 reads
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Nature
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
4.5 · 40 votes · 47 reads
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Society
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
3.7 · 27 votes · 91 reads
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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
3.1 · 58 votes · 101 reads
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
4.8 · 62 votes · 121 reads
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Society
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
4.6 · 28 votes · 63 reads
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
4.6 · 46 votes · 45 reads
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The best teacher is very interactive.
3.1 · 38 votes · 128 reads
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
3.7 · 17 votes · 190 reads
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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 confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
3.7 · 8 votes · 91 reads
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Society
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
3.1 · 31 votes · 42 reads
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
3.2 · 27 votes · 21 reads
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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 calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
3.4 · 52 votes · 185 reads
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The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
4.7 · 7 votes · 171 reads
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Society
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
3.5 · 17 votes · 159 reads
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The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
3.6 · 24 votes · 19 reads
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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
4.7 · 26 votes · 69 reads
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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 kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who
5.0 · 9 votes · 199 reads
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The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
3.9 · 28 votes · 31 reads
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Countries
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
3.3 · 30 votes · 124 reads
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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 that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the
3.7 · 53 votes · 95 reads
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The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
3.1 · 25 votes · 106 reads
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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, it would spread faster.
4.0 · 33 votes · 157 reads
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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
3.4 · 6 votes · 76 reads
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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
5.0 · 38 votes · 198 reads
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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
3.7 · 36 votes · 147 reads
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There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
4.4 · 18 votes · 52 reads
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There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.
3.4 · 46 votes · 159 reads
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Society
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
3.4 · 57 votes · 138 reads
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This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
4.3 · 19 votes · 75 reads
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Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
4.6 · 43 votes · 176 reads
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Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
4.6 · 45 votes · 23 reads
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Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
3.5 · 62 votes · 83 reads
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Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
4.1 · 47 votes · 133 reads
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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
5.0 · 64 votes · 136 reads
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
3.1 · 62 votes · 52 reads
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