"You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil."
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"It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear."
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"A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different."
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"The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it."
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"Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another."
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"We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year."
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"Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down."
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"Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality."
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"Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy."
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"There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints."
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"OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known."
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"According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life."
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"Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that."
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"Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well."
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"The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree."
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"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."
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"Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites."
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"Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce."
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"By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education."
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"Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want."
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