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"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."
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"But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system."
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Personal Development

"I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?"
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"The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to."
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
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"Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission."
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"The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows."
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"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."
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"There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light."
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"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."
Success

"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
Technology

"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
Politics

"In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear."
Economics

"When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so."
Ethics

"Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room."
Responsibility

"Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students."
Technology

"In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success."
Education

"In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system."
Education

"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
Reflection
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