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"In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system."
"You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question."
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
"Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things."
"The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together."
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
"Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies."
"Life's not fair, get over it!"
"The world needs banking but it does not need banks."
"The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information."
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
"If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest."
"Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable."
"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."
"Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life."
"I spend a lot of time reading."
"Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity."
"Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news."
"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."
"In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it."