For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
Bill GatesDNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Bill GatesIf youโre a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but youโll never have heard of Bill Gates.
Bill GatesTechnology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill GatesOn the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.
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