"You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show."
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"Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you"
"Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better."
"Reward worthy failure - Experimentation."
"U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market."
"People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then."
"It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"
"Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity."
"I did not even finish my studies"
"Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one"
"Started from the chair hop now we here."
"Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out."
"[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."
"The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on."
"Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer."
"Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man."
"The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work."
"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."
"The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average."
"There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth."