We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.
If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
People who say they don’t see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it “tap dancing to work.”
If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!
The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
Your customers get better when you do.
Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life’s pleasures or what kills you.
Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don’t evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, ’how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.
The best teacher is very interactive.