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Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
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.
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
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 trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.
We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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.
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.'
Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
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.
We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.
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.
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.
The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.