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" 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before. "
Information
Organizing
Choices
" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "
Parents
Life
Name
" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "
Go
Back
High
" Africa is on the rise. "
Africa
Rise
" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "
Incredible
AIDS
Stigma
" Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. "
Create
Today
Need
" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "
Door
Creating
Day
" A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different. "
World
Will
Washington
" Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. "
Responsibility
Know
Feel
" Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime. "
More
Course
Lifetime
" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "
Best
Education
Good
" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "
Information
Nothing
Government
" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "
New Things
Great
Tough
" Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. "
Connection
Kind
Always
" As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. "
Next
Others
Will
" 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. "
Come
Afraid
Ideas
" Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. "
Good
Internet
Going
" Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people. "
Mean
Information
Touch
" 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. "
Believe
Think
Good
" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "
Education
People
School
" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "
Poor
Left
Will
" By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. "
Growth
Women
Improving
" By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "
See
Bad
Time
" Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. "
Innovation
Capitalism
Care
" Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. "
Move
North Korea
Welcome
" Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. "
Up
Myself
Meeting
" Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. "
Open
Done
Free
" Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong. "
Strong
Certainly
Windows
" China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. "
1980s
System
Poverty
" 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. "
Some
Need
China
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