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"I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all."
"You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well."
"Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system."
"Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work."
"During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark."
"50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use."
"There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice."
"We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code."
"(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."
"That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic."
"There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw."
"I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need."
"This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing."
"Death is something we really understand extremely well."
"The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it."
"The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past."
"Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems."
"Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental."
"The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time."
"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."