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" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "

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" The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk. "

" Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. "

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

" There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively. "

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

" Newspaper readership is still growing in India. "

" 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

" 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. "

" People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then. "

" 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. "

" The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. "

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

" It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down. "

" Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. "

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

" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "

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

" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "

" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "

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

" 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. "

" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "

" Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day. "

" In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "