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" The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. "

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" Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want. "

" In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. "

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

" Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. "

" 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. "

" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "

" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. "

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

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" 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. "

" Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. "

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

" The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. "

" 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. "

" There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. "

" The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn. "

" 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. "

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

" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "

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

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

" The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. "

" The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. "

" 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. "

" If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. "

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" The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. "

" Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students. "

" 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. "

" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "

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