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" When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. "

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

" Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs. "

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

" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "

" The mainstream is always under attack. "

" The kids are a big part of my schedule. "

" With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. "

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

" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "

" Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. "

" Common Core is a big win for education. "

" 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. "

" It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. "

" Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. "

" If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. "

" 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. "

" Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. "

" 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. "

" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "

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

" Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. "

" Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. "

" Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. "

" 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. "

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

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