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

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" 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. "

" Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. "

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

" Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. "

" I don't think culture is something you can describe. "

" I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. "

" I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock. "

" 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. "

" I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. "

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

" The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. "

" 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. "

" Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things. "

" Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. "

" In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. "

" I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time. "

" When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. "

" Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. "

" Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. "

" Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. "

" The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. "

" 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. "

" In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it. "

" The mainstream is always under attack. "