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" Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.' "

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" I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it. "

" China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. "

" When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it. "

Self-Confidence

" I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. "

" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "

" In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. "

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

" In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. "

" My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria. "

" 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. "

" India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot. "

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

" 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. "

" I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. "

" Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder. "

" Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. "

" Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. "

" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "

" The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. "

" AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. "

" If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. "

" I'm a geek. "

" In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? "

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

" Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. "

" 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. "

" As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. "

" Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. "

" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "