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"Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them."
"When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class."
"The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice."
"Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not."
"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."
"I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups."
"Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids."
"I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that."
"In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear."
"When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security."
"My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria."
"I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world."
"I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom."
"My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases."
"There is no doubt PC prices will be coming down."
"A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society."
"You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down."
"The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it."
"I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me."
"Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game."