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

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" I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. "

" We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. "

" Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft. "

" 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 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. "

" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "

" 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. "

" We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. "

" Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. "

" 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. "

" Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. "

" China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. "

" 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before. "

" If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. "

" 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. "

" I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. "

" 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. "

" It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. "

" 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. "

" There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. "

" Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. "

" Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "