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" I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has. "

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" By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "

" Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. "

" Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things. "

" 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. "

" There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints. "

" I don't generally read a lot of fiction. "

" I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. "

" 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. "

" The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. "

" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "

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

" The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. "

" The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. "

" When the PC was launched, people knew it was important. "

" Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. "

" Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want. "

" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "

" It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. "

" Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. "

" I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems. "

" I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. "

" Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. "

" 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. "

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

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" If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. "

" 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. "