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" The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. "

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" My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. "

" 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. "

" I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. "

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

" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "

" K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. "

" You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. "

" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "

" Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. "

" On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. "

" Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. "

" In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. "

" Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally. "

" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "

" Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. "

" I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time. "

" 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. "

" The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics. "

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

" In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. "

" If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. "

" 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. "

" Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. "

" 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. "

" Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue. "