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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.
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.
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 mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?
We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
People everywhere love Windows.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Life is not fair get used to it.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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.