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" Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen. "

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" Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. "

" 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. "

" Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally. "

" What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. "

" I am results-oriented. "

" Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. "

" 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. "

" I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. "

" This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places. "

" The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. "

" When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. "

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

" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "

" The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. "

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

" Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft. "

" 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. "

" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "

" 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. "

" What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day. "

" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "