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If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Bill Gates
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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