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" The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. "

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

" India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. "

" Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. "

" The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. "

" Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. "

" I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' "

" The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. "

" Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. "

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

" The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. "

" I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. "

" In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. "

" It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. "

" The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it. "

" The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. "

" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "

" Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. "

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

" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "

" Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin. "

" In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. "

" 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. "

" Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. "

" What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. "

" People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. "

" Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. "

" 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? "

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

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