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

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" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "

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

" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "

" 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. "

" Philanthropy should be voluntary. "

" It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' "

" Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. "

" We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. "

" The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny. "

" Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. "

" Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. "

" The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. "

" Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. "

" In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. "

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

" 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. "

" Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. "

" 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. "

" Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. "

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" I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. "

" Common Core is a big win for education. "

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" 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. "

" In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. "

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