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" 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. "

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" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "

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" If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. "

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

" Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. "

" People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. "

" Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' "

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

" Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. "

" My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. "

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

" A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. "

" Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. "

" Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. "

" 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. "

" It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. "

" 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. "

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" As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. "

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" India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot. "

" 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. "

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" No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. "

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" In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. "

" There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. "

" Philanthropy should be voluntary. "

" The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. "

" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

" It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' "