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" Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. "

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" The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. "

" The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. "

" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "

" 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. "

" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "

" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "

" 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 seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. "

" I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. "

" When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. "

" Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people. "

" Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. "

" The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. "

" Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas. "

" There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. "

" The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. "

" 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. "

" I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it. "

" Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. "

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

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

" Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. "

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

" I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. "

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

" Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. "