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" Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. "

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" Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. "

" Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. "

" For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria. "

" I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. "

" I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. "

" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "

" There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints. "

" The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work. "

" 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? "

" Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime. "

" Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. "

" 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 think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. "

" Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. "

" It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. "

" Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. "

" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "

" People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. "

" 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. "

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

" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "

" Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. "

" Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. "

" It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. "

" Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. "

" Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. "

" The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. "

" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock. "