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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

Come to the edge,” he said.
They said, “We are afraid.”
“Come to the edge,” he said.
He pushed them and they flew.

The demands and the amount of work that it takes to put something like [Facebook] into place, it’s just so much that if you weren’t completely into what you were doing and you didn’t think it was an important thing, then it would be irrational to spend that much time on it.

There are not many people who have changed the words as decisively, as Bill Gates has. And there are fewer still who have accomplished the kind of change he’s accomplished as rapidly, thoughfully and purposefully.

Bill Gates: “I think it’s safe to say that the world has changed a lot in the last year. With the credit shortfall in the United States we’re seeing the biggest global economic crisis in more than a generation.

We had a period of incredible growth, almost 50 years of very positive growth, and some amazing things came out of that; whether it’s literacy, nutrition, education, stable governments, miracles like the Internet, the economy has grown on a worldwide basis every year, and this year will be the first time that it’s ever shrunk since World War II.”