"The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant."
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"Windows 95 was a nice milestone."
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"The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous."
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"Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children."
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"There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer."
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"The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level."
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"At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on."
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"You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower."
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"The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened."
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"Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East."
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"The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine."
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"The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software."
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"Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all."
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"If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit."
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"One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?"
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"Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries."
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"There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive."
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"The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device."
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"Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."
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"My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet."
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