Friday, June 15, 2007

Bill Gates Quote...

A quote from his Harvard Commencement Speech

"I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world – the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.

I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.

But humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement. "

A much as I have dissed Microsoft, I have to respect BG for his remarks in regards to the inequities in this world and actually trying to do something about it.

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