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" Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' "

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" Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. "

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

" The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing. "

" The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. "

" In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. "

" I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. "

" I get more spam than anyone I know. "

" The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. "

" 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. "

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

" Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. "

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

" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "

" Our teachers deserve better feedback. "

" 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. "

" I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. "

" Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. "

" There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure. "

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

" In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. "

" I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. "

" The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. "

" Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. "

" The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. "

" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "

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

" Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. "