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" 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. "

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" If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. "

Industrial Revolution

" The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. "

" The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. "

" The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. "

" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "

" 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. "

" Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. "

" The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. "

" I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. "

" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "

" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "

" My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria. "

" I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems. "

" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "

" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "

" 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. "

" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "

" 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. "

" Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card. "

" I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. "

" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "

Public Education