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" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "

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" Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. "

" In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. "

" Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career. "

" Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. "

" We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. "

" 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? "

" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "

" Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. "

" Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. "

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

" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "

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

" This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. "

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

" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "

" The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. "

" If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. "

" Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. "

" The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work. "

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

" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "

" A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. "

" When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have. "

" Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. "

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

" Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. "

" U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market. "