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" Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. "

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" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "

" 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. "

" In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear. "

" 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. "

" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "

" The future of advertising is the Internet. "

" Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another. "

" My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. "

" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "

" I'm not a macroeconomics person. "

" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "

" To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. "

" If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. "

" I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. "

" I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time. "

" The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. "

" The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. "

" I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. "

" The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn. "

" 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. "

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

" For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. "

" I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. "

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

" Eventually, all companies are replaced. "