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"The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work."
"With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing, so it's not this question of whether you solve it or you don't. The chance of completely solving the problems has long odds. But really, the thing is that you get to save the first child, the second child, the third child. You can just feel good about that."
"There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that."
"Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to."
"You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour."
"The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn."
"We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past."
"Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence."
"People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to."
"Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf."
"Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services."
"Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries."
"The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right."
"The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity."
"My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive."
"If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
"A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code."
"People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video."
"I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in."
"I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory."