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"My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go."
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"Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."
"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
"The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation."
"Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires."
"I want to make a difference in the world. The only way to do that is to be different."
"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it."
"I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference."
"The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice."
"My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go."
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"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
"In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success."
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away."
"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
"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 digital world, that can be done."
"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."
"The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."
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