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If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.
[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.
Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
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.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
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.
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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.
I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.