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What has been your biggest disappointment?Originally asked
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The one area where the breakthrough isn’t taking place, and it’s tough, is very inexpensive broadband access to homes or even small businesses. The price of broadband has not gone down. And there’s nothing in the next two or three years that’s really going to change that. So if I had a wand and I could ask for one more hardware technology miracle, it’d be some way of having $20-a-month broadband to homes and small businesses.
Jane Asher
English actress and author
Fine dining when it goes wrong.
Rose Tremain
English writer
The film of Restoration. A beautiful cast. An award-winning designer. A massive budget. A dog’s dinner.
Michael Sheen
Welsh actor
Welsh rugby since the 70s.
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