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

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

" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "

" Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer. "

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

" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "

" When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. "

" You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. "

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

" I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. "

" Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. "

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

" We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. "

" The kids are a big part of my schedule. "

" 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. "

" If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. "

" Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. "

" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "

" Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism. "

" I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. "

" The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. "

" SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail. "

" Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. "

" Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. "

" Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. "