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

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" China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. "

" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "

" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. "

" 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.' "

" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "

" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "

" If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day. "

" The mainstream is always under attack. "

" The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk. "

" People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. "

" K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. "

" 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. "

" The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. "

" Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. "

" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "

" It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' "

" 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

" I'm a geek. "

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

" Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. "

" There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. "

" Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. "

" The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. "

" This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. "

" With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents. "

" 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. "

" One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' "