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

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

" 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. "

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

" We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. "

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

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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. "

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

" Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. "

" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. "

" I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. "

" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "

" 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. "

" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "

" The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. "

" Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. "

" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "

" Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. "

" Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. "

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

" Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. "

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

" 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. "

" The microprocessor is a miracle. "

" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "

" 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. "

" Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a macroeconomics person. "