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"The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same."
"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."
"Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share."
"We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm."
"Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf."
"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact."
"If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things."
"My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things."
"When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons."
"The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster."
"I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version."
"Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible."
"India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities."
"There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic."
"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."
"The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps."
"To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime"
"The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift."
"Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever."
"I think of myself as a global citizen."