And Gayle Smith - she's a senior fellow at the Center of American Progress, a long time watcher of affairs in Africa.

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"If we don't see significant breakthroughs in the next year and a half, I think people are just going to lose patience with the PC, " said an attendee, who asked not be named, but said he was an entrepreneur in the health-care industry and a long-time Gates watcher.

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As a longtime Apple watcher, this time all the aspects seem to have lined up and I feel confident the project is real and moving forward.

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There is not one trader or investor in the market place, who has been at it for any length of time at all, who has not been humbled by the markets, including this veteran market watcher.

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