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Finally, Assuming That Many Of Those Are Fulfilled, Which Won't Be Easy In Tight Budget Times, We're Taking The Supply Side At The Basic Research Level, Because That's Where Government Is Absolutely Fundamental.

I Never Took A Day Off In My Twenties. Not One. And I'm Still Fanatical, But Now I'm A Little Less Fanatical.

The Media Covers What’s New – And Millions Of People Dying Is Nothing New. So It Stays In The Background, Where It’s Easier To Ignore. But Even When We Do See It Or Read About It, It’s Difficult To Keep Our Eyes On The Problem. It’s Hard To Look At Suffering If The Situation Is So Complex That We Don’t Know How To Help. And So We Look Away.

If You Take From The Most Wealthy And Give To The Least Wealthy, It's Good. It Tries To Balance Out.

Does The E-mail Say It's About 'enlargement' - That Might Be Spam.

I Went Public Too Soon. Stay Private As Long As You Can.

The Internet Is Becoming The Town Square For The Global Village Of Tomorrow.

There's Life And Death In Every Email.

There's A Lot That Can Be Done For People Who Are Using Technology In A Better Way.

There Was A Concept A Long Time Ago That You Would Do A Different Type Of Reactor Called A "fast Reactor," That Would Make A Bunch Of Another Element Called Plutonium, And Then You Would Pull That Out, And Then You Would Burn That. That's Called "breeding" In A Fast Reactor. That Is Bad Because Plutonium Is Nuclear Weapons Material. It's Messy. The Processing You Have To Get Through Is Not Only Environmentally Difficultly, It's Extremely Expensive.

The Most Important People Is To Pick People Who Like To Write Software And Who Are Good At... Good Developers Like Working With Each Other. And They... They Reinforce Each Other's Skills.

50 Years From Now We Won't Need As Much Human Labour To Do What Manual Workers Do, So We Should Be Able To Take That Extra Productivity And Put It To Better Use.

So It's An Absolute Lie That Has Killed Thousands Of Kids. Because The Mothers Who Heard That Lie, Many Of Them Didn't Have Their Kids Take Either Pertussis Or Measles Vaccine, And Their Children Are Dead Today. And So The People Who Go And Engage In Those Anti-vaccine Efforts -- You Know, They, They Kill Children. It's A Very Sad Thing, Because These Vaccines Are Important.

At Microsoft There Are Lots Of Brilliant Ideas But The Image Is That They All Come From The Top - I'm Afraid That's Not Quite Right.

Everyone Knows About Black Friday And Cyber Monday. Now Help Me Spread The Word About Giving Tuesday!

I Was A Kind Of Hyper-intense Person In My Twenties And Very Impatient.

If You Want To Improve The Situation Of The Poorest Two Billion On The Planet, Having The Price Of Energy Go Down Substantially Would Be The Best Thing You Could Do For Them.

The Ideal Thing Would Be To Have A 100 Percent Effective Aids Vaccine. And To Have Broad Usage Of That Vaccine. That Would Literally Break The Epidemic.

And Knowledge Management Is A Means, Not An End.

If You Think Of Global Public Goods Like Polio Eradication, The Kind Of Risk-taking New Approach, Philanthropy Really Does Have A Role To Play There, Because Government Doesn't Do R&d About New Things Naturally As Much As It Probably Should, And So Philanthropy's There.

A Company Needs To Have Good Business Reflexes, To Be Able To Marshal Its Forces In A Crisis Or In Response To Any Unplanned Event.

You Have To Be Willing To See That Sometimes The Governments Of These Poor Countries Don't Come Through. You Have To Think About That As A Constraint. How Do You Help Them Be Better? How Do You Come Up With Things That Actually Work, Even In Those Tough Situations.

People Want To Watch Whatever Video They Want To Watch Whenever They Want To Watch. If You Provision Your Internet Infrastructure Adequately, You Can Do That.

If You Want To Build A Great Company, Get The Hell Out Of Silicon Valley.

Energy Is Very Primal Stuff And There Are A Lot Of Leads That Are Promising, Still At A Fairly Risky Stage, But Over The Next Decade Some Of These Breakthrough Approaches Are Going To Pay Out, And U.s. Research And U.s. Leadership On This Should Be Part Of How It Gets Solved.

In A Budget, How Important Is Art Versus Music Versus Athletics Versus Computer Programming? At The End Of The Day, Some Of Those Trade-offs Will Be Made Politically.

The End Of The Day

The World At Large Is Less Inequitable Today Than At Any Time In History. Number Of People In Abject Poverty, As A Percentage, Is At All-time Low.

The Tool That's Most Associated With The Recent Progress Against Malaria Is The Long-lasting Bed Net. Bed Nets Are A Fantastic Innovation. But We Can Do Even Better. We Can Invent New Ways To Control The Mosquitoes That Carry The Malaria Parasite.

Now We've Got That [children's Death Rate] Down To About 5 Percent, So We've More Than Cut It In Half, And That's Because We're Getting Vaccines Out, Economic Improvement Also Helps There, But The Vaccines Are Why We've Seen An Acceleration In Getting That Down.

If We Have Optimism Without Empathy Then It Doesn't Matter How Much We Master The Secrets Of Science. We're Not Really Solving Problems, We're Just Working On Puzzles.

I Regret Being The Richest Man In The World Because That Position Attracts Undeserved Publicity.

When Paul Allen And I Started Microsoft Over 30 Years Ago, We Had Big Dreams About Software. We Had Dreams About The Impact It Could Have.

We All Learn Best In Our Own Ways. Some People Do Better Studying One Subject At A Time, While Some Do Better Studying Three Things At Once. Some People Do Best Studying In Structured, Linear Way, While Others Do Best Jumping Around, Surrounding A Subject Rather Than Traversing It. Some People Prefer To Learn By Manipulating Models, And Others By Reading.

China And The U.s. Need Each Other Very Badly. Yes, We Should Argue About Some Things, But It's Not An 'us Versus Them,' It's An 'us And Them' Type Scenario.

Customer Service Will Become The Primary Value Added Function Of Every Business.

I'm Serious When I Do My Work. I'm Not Serious When I'm Home With My Kids.

A Top-quartile Teacher Will Increase The Performance Of Their Class - Based On Test Scores - By Over 10 Percent In A Single Year. ... That Means That If The Entire U.s., For Two Years, Had Top-quartile Teachers, The Entire Difference Between Us And Asia Would Go Away.

If African Farmers Can Use Improved Seeds And Better Practices To Grow More Crops And Get Them To Market, Then Millions Of Families Can Earn Themselves A Better Living And A Better Life.

There Won't Be Anything We Won't Say To People To Try And Convince Them That Our Way Is The Way To Go.

Windows 8 Is Key To The Future, The Surface Computer.

President [george] Bush Made The U.s. Absolutely The Leader, Between Its Own Pepfar, And It's Been By Far The Biggest Global Fund Donor. That's A Legacy.

If You Say To People That There's Less Violence Today Than In The Past, They Would Be Stunned To Hear That. But It's The Truth, Even Though We Have Awful Things Happening In Syria Or Sudan.

The Main Thing That's Missing In Energy Is An Incentive To Create Things That Are Zero-co2-emitting And That Have The Right Scale And Reliability Characteristics.

Once You Embrace Unpleasant News, Not As A Negative But As Evidence Of A Need For Change, You Aren't Defeated By It. You're Learning From It.

In Low-income Countries, The Main Problems You Have Is Infectious Diseases.

One Thing People Underestimate Is How Markets Don't Allow Anyone To Do Anything Except Make Better And Better Products. There's Not Much Leeway. The World Is A Lot More Competitive Than Most People Think, Particularly In A High-technology Area. If A Company Takes Its Eye Off Improving Its Products, If It Tries To Do Anything That Would Be Viewed As An Exercise Of Power, It'll Be Displaced Very Rapidly.

Make Sure People Get Educated, Help Out With Health Emergencies. Those Things, The Government Should Do. That's 96 Per Cent Of The Economy, Those Two Sectors.

The Best Way To Prepare [to Be A Programmer] Is To Write Programs, And To Study Great Programs That Other People Have Written. In My Case, I Went To The Garbage Cans At The Computer Science Center And I Fished Out Listings Of Their Operating Systems.

You Have To Have A Certain Realism That Government Is A Pretty Blunt Instrument And Without The Constant Attention Of Highly Qualified People With The Right Metrics, It Will Fall Into Not Doing Things Very Well.

In Energy, You Have To Plan And Do Research Way In Advance, Sometimes Decades In Advance To Get A New System That's Safer, Doesn't Require Us To Go Around The World To Get All Our Oil.

Well-spent Aid Money Is Saving Lives For A Few Thousand Dollars Per Life Saved.

I Like My Job Because It Involves Learning. I Like Being Around Smart People Who Are Trying To Figure Out New Things. I Like The Fact That If People Really Try They Can Figure Out How To Invent Things That Actually Have An Impact.

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I Don't Generally Read A Lot Of Fiction.

Scientists And Companies Weren't Creating Things Like New Vaccines. Now That We Have This Fund That's There To Buy At The Lowest Price, But Buy For Those People These Medicines, We See Scientists Everywhere Coming Up With Those New Tools.

Creating Things

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Security Is, I Would Say, Our Top Priority Because For All The Exciting Things You Will Be Able To Do With Computers - Organizing Your Lives, Staying In Touch With People, Being Creative - If We Don't Solve These Security Problems, Then People Will Hold Back.

Why Do People Benefit In Inverse Proportion To Their Need? Well, Market Incentives Make That Happen.

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With Tech Companies, Whoever's The Leader Is Always Questioned, You Know. They Say, 'is This The End Of Them?' And - There's More - More Times People Think That's The Case Than It Really Is The Case.

As You Improve Health In A Society, Population Growth Goes Down. You Know, I Thought It Was... Before I Learned About It, I Thought It Was Paradoxical.

Flipping Burgers Is Not Beneath Your Dignity. Your Grandparents Had A Different Word For Burger Flipping - They Called It Opportunity.

You Can Make Money And You Can Make Excuses, But You Can Never Make Money Out Of Excuses

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Common Core Is A Big Win For Education.

You Can Always Think Of Something Like The Xbox 360 As A Super Set-top Box That Can Do Everything The Set-top Box Does, But Then Have The Graphics To Do The Games As Well.

I Feel Certain That The Personal Computer Is As Revolutionary In Terms Of The Way It Will Change The Way We Work, Learn, And Entertain Ourselves As Any Of These Previous Advances.

I’ve Been Waiting More Than 30 Years To Say This: “dad, I Always Told You I’d Come Back And Get My Degree.” I Want To Thank Harvard For This Timely Honor. I’ll Be Changing My Job Next Year … And It Will Be Nice To Finally Have A College Degree On My Resume.

A Company's Ability To Respond To An Unplanned Event, Good Or Bad Is A Prime Indicator Of Its Ability To Compete.

If You're A Guest [at My $113 Million House], You'll Be Able To Call Up On Screens Throughout The House Almost Any Image You Like - Presidential Portraits, Reproductions Of High Renaissance Paintings, Pictures Of Sunsets, Airplanes, Skiers In The Andes, A Rare French Stamp, The Beatles In 1965.

The Us Spends More On Energy R&d Than All Other Countries Put Together, And I Personally Consider It Quite Inadequate.

Discrimination Has A Lot Of Layers That Make It Tough For Minorities To Get A Leg Up.

Perhaps I Should Be Flattered That Somebody Imagines The Name Is Worth So Much, Especially Since My Parents Gave Me The Same Name 42 Years Ago For Free.

Driving Up The Value Of The Advertising Is A Big Commitment For Microsoft.

K To 12 Is Partly About Babysitting The Kids So The Parents Can Do Other Things.

I Went To A Public School Through Sixth Grade, And Being Good At Tests Wasn't Cool.

Our Modern Lifestyle Is Not A Political Creation. Before 1700, Everybody Was Poor As Hell. Life Was Short And Brutish. It Wasn't Because We Didn't Have Good Politicians; We Had Some Really Good Politicians. But Then We Started Inventing - Electricity, Steam Engines, Microprocessors, Understanding Genetics And Medicine And Things Like That. Yes, Stability And Education Are Important - I'm Not Taking Anything Away From That - But Innovation Is The Real Driver Of Progress.

Now You Have To Be A Collaborator And You Have To Bring On Governments And Convince People.

This Is A Very Exciting Time In The World Of Information. It`s Not Just That The Personal Computer Has Come Along As A Great Tool. The Whole Pace Of Business Is Moving Faster. Globalization Is Forcing Companies To Do Things In New Ways.

We Have Over 60 Million Machines That Can Take The Same Diskette, Plug It In And Immediately Ah, That That Software's Working. And So It's Created The Worldwide Software Industry That... That Is So Very Competitive And Moving So Quickly.

The Fact That There Was No Catastrophic Pandemic In Recent History Does Not Mean There Won't Be Another One. And We Are Certainly Not Prepared For The Next Pandemic.

You've Got To Be Willing To Read Other People's Code, Then Write Your Own, Then Have Other People Review Your Code.

There Is This Broad, Broad Recognition Of How Technology Is Enabling New Things. Companies That Never Paid Attention To Computers In Any Form Now See Digital Technology As Creating Threats And Opportunities For Them.

There Are Gmo Skeptics More In Europe Maybe Than In Other Places, But Not Exclusively.

In This Business, By The Time You Realize You're In Trouble, It's Too Late To Save Yourself. Unless You're Running Scared All The Time, You're Gone.

Funny Inspirational

The Trouble With Energy Farming Is That The Energy Isn't Always Where You Want To Use It, And It Isn't Always When You Want To Use It.

Cutting Through Complexity To Find A Solution Runs Through Four Predictable Stages: Determine A Goal, Find The Highest-leverage Approach, Discover The Ideal Technology For That Approach, And In The Meantime, Make The Smartest Application Of The Technology That You Already Have - Whether It's Something Sophisticated, Like A Drug, Or Something Simpler, Like A Bednet.

Governments Will Always Play A Huge Part In Solving Big Problems. They Set Public Policy And Are Uniquely Able To Provide The Resources To Make Sure Solutions Reach Everyone Who Needs Them. They Also Fund Basic Research, Which Is A Crucial Component Of The Innovation That Improves Life For Everyone.

When I Walk Into A Grocery Store And Look At All The Products You Can Choose, I Say, "my God!" No King Ever Had Anything Like I Have In My Grocery Store Today.

While We're All Very Dependent On Technology, It Doesn't Always Work.

I Have Seen Firsthand That Agricultural Science Has Enormous Potential To Increase The Yields Of Small Farmers And Lift Them Out Of Hunger And Poverty.

Hunger And Poverty

With The States Release Today Of A Set Of Clear And Consistent Academic Standards, Our Nation Is One Step Closer To Supporting Effective Teaching In Every Classroom, Charting A Path To College And Careers For All Students, And Developing The Tools To Help All Children Stay Motivated And Engaged In Their Own Education. The More States That Adopt These College And Career Based Standards, The Closer We Will Be To Sharing Innovation Across State Borders And Becoming More Competitive As A Country.

Microsoft's Philosophy Is To 'do Things Better.' And Vista Has Given Us Lots Of Opportunity To Do That.

In Almost Every Area Of Human Endeavor, The Practice Improves Over Time. That Hasn't Been The Case For Teaching.

Now, We Put Out A Lot Of Carbon Dioxide Every Year, Over 26 Billion Tons. For Each American, It's About 20 Tons. For People In Poor Countries, It's Less Than One Ton. It's An Average Of About Five Tons For Everyone On The Planet. And, Somehow, We Have To Make Changes That Will Bring That Down To Zero.

People Who Feared Ibm Were Wrong, ... Technology Is Ever-changing.

This Is A Fantastic Time To Be Entering The Business World, Because Business Is Going To Change More In The Next 10 Years Than It Has In The Last 50.

The First Big Effects Will Be Farmers That Live On The Edge. Today's Weather, They Barely Get By. Their Kids, A High Percentage Are Malnourished, And So If You Impose More Variable Weather And More Heat, You're Getting More Floods, More Droughts, And During The Germination Time, The High Heat, Most Crops...do Poorly When There's More Heat.

The First Five Years Have So Much To Do With How The Next 80 Turn Out.

It's Easier To Add Things On To A Pc Than It's Ever Been Before. It's One Click, And Boom, It Comes Down.

I'm Cooler Than You. Waaay Cooler.

The Gates Foundation Has Learned That Two Questions Can Predict How Much Kids Learn: 'does Your Teacher Use Class Time Well?' And, 'when You're Confused, Does Your Teacher Help You Get Straightened Out?'

When You Lose A Customer, It Can Be Tempting To Tell Each Other, "that Customer's Not Very Sharp. They Just Made The Wrong Decision".

You Have The Refugee Crisis Triggered By Syria. That's Got A Lot Of Costs Associated With It. Domestically, Budgets Are Incredibly Tight Because The Economy's Not Generating The Growth That Makes For Easy Trade-offs.

I Believe That Every Life Is Valuable. That We Can Make Things Better. That Innovation Is The Key To A Bright Future. That We're Just Getting Started.

Aids Itself Is Subject To Incredible Stigma.

What We're Really After Is Simply That People Acquire A Legal License For Windows For Each Computer They Own Before They Move On To Linux Or Sun Solaris Or Bsd Or Os/2 Or Whatever.

Don't Let Complexity Stop You.

Rich Countries Can Afford To Overpay For Things.

The Internet Is Just A Passing Fad.

I'm Certainly Well Taken Care Of In Terms Of Food And Clothes.

Be Nice To Nerds,,, One Day U Might Have To Work For One

I Like To Read General Biology - Things About The Immune System And Advances In That Area - Because It Lays The Foundation For My Part Of The Dialogue At The Foundation About What Things We Ought To Pursue.

Even In Some Of Our Vaccine Areas, Like An Aids Vaccine, Things Have Taken Longer Than We Expected, But We Have The Pipeline Of Tools. The Biological Information That We Have That Gives Us Insights Is Fantastic.

Whether You Believe It A Moral Imperative Or In The Rich World's Enlightened Self-interest, Securing The Conditions That Will Lead To A Healthy, Prosperous Future For Everyone Is A Goal I Believe We All Share.

Prosperous Future

Energy Is Actually Harder; It Takes More Time To Get A Product, But If You Do It's A Very, Very Big Market And The Constraints Of Doing That In A Clean Way Are More Obvious All The Time.

The Wright Brothers Created The Single Greatest Cultural Force Since The Invention Of Writing. The Airplane Became The First World Wide Web, Bringing People, Languages, Ideas, And Values Together.

If You Rely Too Much On The People In Other Countries And Other Companies, In A Sense That's Your Brain And You Are Outsourcing Your Brain.

Even When I Wrote Basic Myself The Day Before I Burned It Into A Computer I Wasn't Making Design Changes. I Didn't Have A Testing Team. I Did All The Testing Myself. And There Was No Project Methodology Or Schedule That, There Was The Notion Of Coming To A Close Means Testing A Lot At The End And Making Very Few Changes.

In K-12, Almost Everybody Goes To Local Schools. Universities Are A Bit Different Because Kids Actually Do Pick The University. The Bizarre Thing, Though, Is That The Merit Of University Is Actually How Good The Students Going In Are: The Sat Scores Of The Kids Going In.

One Of The Wonderful Things About The Information Highway Is That Virtual Equity Is Far Easier To Achieve Than Real-world Equity...we Are All Created Equal In The Virtual World And We Can Use This Equality To Help Address Some Of The Sociological Problems That Society Has Yet To Solve In The Physical World.

Technology Must Be Implemented As Part Of A Thoughtful, Holistic Approach To Education Transformation That Includes Teacher Training, Relevant Curricula, Parental Involvement, And Programs For Children That Fill Unmet Needs For Basics Like Nutrition And Health Care.

I Read An Hour Almost Every Night. It's Part Of Falling Asleep.

The Present And Future Of Knowledge Attainment And Essential Business Skills.

In Order To Deal With All The Medical Cost Demands And Other Challenges In The U.s., As We Look To Raise That Revenue, The Rich Will Have To Pay Slightly More. That's Quite Clear.

But The Improvements Will Happen Faster And Last Longer If We Can Channel Market Forces, Including Innovation That's Tailored To The Needs Of The Poorest, To Complement What Governments And Nonprofits Do. We Need A System That Draws In Innovators And Businesses In A Far Better Way Than We Do Today.

Most People Overestimate What They Can Do In One Year And Underestimate What They Can Do In Ten Years.

You Can't Have A Rigid View That All New Taxes Are Evil.

Anything That Someone's Interested In Should Be Very, Very Easy To Call Up Onto The Screen. And In Fact The Computer Over Time Will See What You're Interested In And Make That Immediately Available Without Your Having To Be Give Any Commands At All.

We've Got To Put A Lot Of Money Into Changing Behavior.

The Tablet Is Not Mainstream. Reading Off The Screen Is Not Mainstream.

People Should Just Buy A Cd And Rip It. You Are Legal Then.

We All Need People Who Will Give Us Feedback. That's How We Improve.

That It's A Worldwide Thing That Families Are Better Off.

Helping Convene Global Stakeholders To Establish A Set Of Measurable, Actionable And Consensus-built Goals Focused On Extreme Poverty Is Invaluable.

The General Idea Of The Rich Helping The Poor, I Think, Is Important.

Bitcoin Is Mostly About Anonymous Transactions, And I Don't Think Over Time That's A Good Way To Go. I'm A Huge Believe In Digital Currency... But Doing It On An Anonymous Basis I Think That Leads To Some Abuses, So I'm Not Involved In Bitcoin.

Making Sure All Our Students Get A Great Education, Find A Career That's Fulfilling And Rewarding, And Have A Chance To Live Out Their Dreams ... Wouldn't Just Make Us A More Successful Country - It Would Also Make Us A More Fair And Just One.

Me And My Dad Are The Biggest Promoters Of An Estate Tax In The Us. It's Not A Popular Position.

We’re No Longer In The Days Where Every Program Is Super Well Crafted. But At The Heart Of The Programs That Make It To The Top, You’ll Find That The Key Internal Code Was Done By A Few People Who Really Knew What They Were Doing.

We Really Have To Work Hard To Remind People Even Though This Is Far Away, That's It's Probably The Most Generous Thing Governments Have Ever Come Together To Do. Since World War Ii, This New Institution Is The Only One That's Emerged And Is Saving All These Lives.

I Believe The Government Has The Right To Recover From The Heirs To The Fortunes Of Its Most Successful Citizens Some Portion Of Those Fortunes.

Software Substitution, Whether It's For Drivers Or Waiters Or Nurses ... It's Progressing. ... Technology Over Time Will Reduce Demand For Jobs, Particularly At The Lower End Of Skill Set. ... 20 Years From Now, Labor Demand For Lots Of Skill Sets Will Be Substantially Lower. I Don’t Think People Have That In Their Mental Model.

People Think About This Idea That There's 122 Million Kids That Are Alive That Would Not Be If That Fatality Rate Had Stayed At The 1990 Level, That's 122 Million Families.

Creative Capitalism Takes This Interest In The Fortunes Of Others And Ties It To Our Interest In Our Own Fortunes In Ways That Help Advance Both. This Hybrid Engine Of Self-interest And Concern For Others Can Serve A Much Wider Circle Of People Than Can Be Reached By Self-interest Or Caring Alone.

It's An Experiment, And It's Probably Good To Have A Couple States Try It Out To See Before You Make That National Policy.

The Job Was To Put Into A, A Computer With Only 4k Of Memory An Entire Basic Full Blown, Floating Point Basic And That's One Of The Greatest Programming Feats I've Ever Had A Chance To Work On.

Middle-income Countries Are The Biggest Users Of Gmos. Places Like Brazil.

Philanthropy Should Be Taking Much Bigger Risks That Business. If These Are Easy Problems, Business And Government Can Come In And Solve Them.

I Really Had A Lot Of Dreams When I Was A Kid, And I Think A Great Deal Of That Grew Out Of The Fact That I Had A Chance To Read A Lot.

To Succeed, You Also Have To Know How To Make Choices And How To Think More Broadly.

Take Our 20 Best People Away, And I Will Tell You That Microsoft Will Become An Unimportant Company

Well Private Money Can Take Risks In A Way That Government Money Often Isn't Willing To.

The Quality Of Research In The U.s. Is Absolutely The Best.

I Have To Say That In 1981, Making Those Decisions, I Felt Like I Was Providing Enough Freedom For 10 Years. That Is, A Move From 64k To 640k Felt Like Something That Would Last A Great Deal Of Time. Well, It Didn't - It Took About Only 6 Years Before People Started To See That As A Real Problem.

Vaccines Are A Miracle; They're Fantastic. Anything That Makes People Hesitate To Give Their Children These Vaccines According To The Recommended Schedule Creates Risk. Risk For The Children Who Don't Get Vaccinated And Risk For Children, Some Of Whom Don't Have An Immune System, So They're Benefiting From The Fact That The Community Protection Means The Disease Doesn't Get To Them.

Melinda [gates] Has Been My Partner In Raising The Kids And I Went From Before I Met Her, Intentionally Having An Unbalanced Life, To Having A More Balanced Life With All Sorts Of Fun Things That She And I Do Together.

I Have A Company That Is Not Microsoft, Called Corbis. Corbis Is The Operation That Merged With Bettman Archives. It Has Nothing To Do With Microsoft. It Was Intentionally Done Outside Of Microsoft Because Microsoft Isn't Interested.

So We Can Simulate Richter-10 Earthquakes. We Simulate 70-foot Waves Coming Into These Things. Very Cool. We Basically Say No Human Should Ever Be Required To Do Anything, Because If You Judge By Chernobyl And Fukushima, The Human Element Is Not On Your Side.

This Antitrust Thing Will Blow Over.

Software Innovation, Like Almost Every Other Kind Of Innovation, Requires The Ability To Collaborate And Share Ideas With Other People, And To Sit Down And Talk With Customers And Get Their Feedback And Understand Their Needs.

If You Can't Make It Good, At Least Make It Look Good.

I'd Be Happy If I Could Think That The Role Of The Library Was Sustained And Even Enhanced In The Age Of The Computer.

There Are Websites That Any Government Wants To Block. The Truth About The Internet Is That It's Extremely Hard To Block Anything - Extremely Hard. You'll Never Get Perfect Blocking.

I Don't Think There Is Any Philosophy That Suggests Having Polio Is A Good Thing.

People Often Overestimate What Will Happen In The Next Two Years And Underestimate What Will Happen In Ten.

Innovation Is A Good Thing. The Human Condition - Put Aside Bioterrorism And A Few Footnotes - Is Improving Because Of Innovation.

Human Condition

Legacy Is A Stupid Thing! I Don't Want A Legacy.

The Finest Pieces Of Software Are Those Where One Individual Has A Complete Sense Of Exactly How The Program Works. To Have That, You Have To Really Love The Program And Concentrate On Keeping It Simple, To An Incredible Degree.

Microsoft Has Had Clear Competitors In The Past. It's A Good Thing We Have Museums To Document That.

If The 1980s Were About Quality And The 1990s Were About Reengineering, Then The 2000s Will Be About Velocity.

I'm Not Big On To-do Lists. Instead, I Use E-mail And Desktop Folders And My Online Calendar. So When I Walk Up To My Desk, I Can Focus On The E-mails I've Flagged And Check The Folders That Are Monitoring Particular Projects And Particular Blogs.

Programs Today Get Very Fat; The Enhancements Tend To Slow The Program Down Because People Put In Special Checks. When They Want To Add Some Feature, They’ll Just Stick In These Checks Without Thinking About How They Might Slow The Thing Down.

I Don't Think There's Anything Unique About Human Intellience. All The Nuerons In The Brain That Make Up Perceptions And Emotions Operate In A Binary Fashion.

The First Rule Of Any Technology Used In A Business Is That Automation Applied To An Efficient Operation Will Magnify The Efficiency. The Second Is That Automation Applied To An Inefficient Operation Will Magnify The Inefficiency.

A Lot Of The Things That Will Really Improve The World Fortunately Aren't Dependent On Washington Doing Something Different.

Microsoft Does Not Dominate The Software Industry By Any Stretch Of The Imagination. We Have Lots Of Very Able Competitors Who Keep Us Constantly Vigilant, And Sometimes They Beat Us To The Punch. Microsoft's Success To Date Is Based Solely On The Fact That People Like Microsoft Software.

Personal Computing Today Is A Rich Ecosystem Encompassing Massive Pc-based Data Centers, Notebook And Tablet Pcs, Handheld Devices, And Smart Cell Phones. It Has Expanded From The Desktop And The Data Center To Wherever People Need It - At Their Desks, In A Meeting, On The Road Or Even In The Air.

People Always Fear Change. People Feared Electricity When It Was Invented, Didn't They? People Feared Coal, They Feared Gas-powered Engines... There Will Always Be Ignorance, And Ignorance Leads To Fear. But With Time, People Will Come To Accept Their Silicon Masters.

Success Is A Lousy Teacher.

It's The Knowledge Derived From Information That Gives You A Competitive Edge.

Robotics And Other Combinations Will Make The World Pretty Fantastic Compared With Today.

The Human Body Is The Most Complex System Ever Created. The More We Learn About It, The More Appreciation We Have About What A Rich System It Is.

The Flatter The Corporate Hierarchy, The More Likely It Is That Employees Will Communicate Bad News And Act Upon It.

The Next Big Invention That Will Change The Way We Live Should Be Things Like Ways Of Generating Energy Like Electricity.

In Order For The United States To Do The Right Things For The Long Term, It Appears To Be Helpful For Us To Have The Prospect Of Humiliation. Sputnik Helped Us Fund Good Science - Really Good Science: The Semiconductor Came Out Of It.

China Has Many Successful Entrepreneurs And Business People. I Hope That More People Of Insight Will Put Their Talents To Work To Improve The Lives Of Poor People In China And Around The World, And Seek Solutions For Them.

I Was Lucky To Be In The Right Place At The Right Time. But Many Others Were Also In The Same Place. The Difference Was That I Took Action.

There's A Unique Thing About The Uk, Where You Give A Very Generous Foreign Aid Budget To Support Globally, Which Is Spent Wisely. We Partner With The Government Here To Make Sure That That Money Is Spent Well.

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Started From The Chair Hop Now We Here.

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