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"Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

"There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford."

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."

"The future belongs to those who innovate."

"An idea is like a spark in the dark " it makes everything brighter."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."

"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."
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"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."

"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."

"In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?"

"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."

"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."

"My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria."

"When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have."

"Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things."
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