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We Always Overestimate The Change That Will Occur In The Next Two Years And Underestimate The Change That Will Occur In The Next Ten. Don't Let Yourself Be Lulled Into Inaction.

It's Ok For China To Invent Cancer Drugs That Cure Patients In The United States. We Want Them To Catch Up. But As The Leader, We Want To Keep Setting A Very, Very High Standard. We Don't Want Them To Catch Up Because We're Slowing Down Or, Even Worse, Going Into Reverse.

We Have Two Other Countries, Pakistan And Afghanistan - Again It's The Instability That Is A Problem There. So Over The Next Several Years, We Expect To Drive The Number Of [polio] Cases Back Down To Zero Because That Is Likely To Be The Second Disease After Smallpox That We Completely Eradicate.

With Tech Companies, Whoever's The Leader Is Always Questioned, You Know. They Say, 'is This The End Of Them?' And - There's More - More Times People Think That's The Case Than It Really Is The Case.

If You’re A Person Struggling To Eat And Stay Healthy You Might Have Heard About Michael Jordan Or Muhammad Ali, But You’ll Never Have Heard Of Bill Gates.