Bill Gates
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

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 to a great teacher than to a great school.

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.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules — not just for governments but for private companies.

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.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam — those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.