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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More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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