“I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.”

— Bill Gates

On being the world's richest man, in an online advertising conference in Redmond, Washington, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 2006) http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1768129,00.html
2000s

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