My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
MELINDA GATESWhen we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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