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" Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. "

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" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "

" I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. "

" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "

" The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it. "

" No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. "

" Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things. "

" In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively. "

" 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. "

" We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. "

" The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. "

" 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. "

" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "

" If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? "

" Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. "

" India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "

" If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. "

" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "

" I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. "

" My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. "

" Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems. "

" The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. "

" 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

" Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. "

" 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. "