The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
Interpretation
Nuclear energy has a superior safety track record compared to other energy sources.
Bill Gates emphasizes the safety benefits of nuclear energy compared to alternative energy sources. He argues that despite common perceptions surrounding nuclear power, its historical safety record is stronger, suggesting that it should be considered as a viable option in the pursuit of clean energy solutions.
In practice
In a debate about sustainable energy solutions, someone might use this quote to advocate for the inclusion of nuclear power.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
Youβve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of the earth. Activated by radiation, the matter of the biosphere collects and redistributes solar energy, and converts it ultimately into free energy capable of doing work on earth.
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