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"Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that."
"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."
"Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life."
"It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war."
"A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business."
"I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development."
"Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health."
"Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable."
"Success is a lousy teacher."
"Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change."
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
"In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it."
"In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us."
"I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other places that have a TV, then I turn it on and flip the channels just like everybody else. I'm not immune to the lures of television. I just try to stay away from it because I like to read."
"Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player."
"No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer"
"I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances."
"We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs."
"As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead."
"For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good."