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" Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. "

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" I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it. "

" 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. "

" Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. "

" 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. "

" 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 get more spam than anyone I know. "

" Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. "

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

" My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. "

" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "

" I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted. "

" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "

" 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. "

" Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. "

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

" Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. "

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

" Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. "

" I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. "

" We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. "

" Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card. "

" What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' "

" 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. "

" People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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