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" There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. "

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

" Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides. "

" DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. "

" The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. "

" 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. "

" I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. "

" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "

" I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief. "

" Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. "

" Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. "

" I spend a lot of time reading. "

" There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. "

" Common Core is a big win for education. "

" In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear. "

" It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. "

" 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. "

" At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. "

" I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies. "

" The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. "

" People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. "

" The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate. "

" Philanthropy should be voluntary. "

" 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. "

" I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. "

" Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. "

" 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. "

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

" The microprocessor is a miracle. "

" This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places. "

" I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. "