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" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "

" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "

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

" Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. "

" The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' "

" We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. "

" In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. "

" 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. "

" You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. "

" The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand. "

" I'm a geek. "

" Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. "

" 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. "

" Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. "

" 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. "

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

" Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. "

" If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. "

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

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

" Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. "

" 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. "

" I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. "

" If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. "

" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "

" 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. "

" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "

" I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. "

" Most poor people live in the poorest countries. "