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" Newspaper readership is still growing in India. "

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" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "

" 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. "

" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "

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

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

" Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides. "

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

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

" Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. "

" 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 think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett. "

" Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. "

" If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. "

" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "

" The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' "

" I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. "

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

" Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. "

" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "

" In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically. "

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

" I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. "

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

" 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. "

" The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. "

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

" Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. "

" Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things. "

" I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. "