“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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“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.”
“I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.”
“We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.”
“Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.”
“Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.”
“If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.”
“We’re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you’ll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing.”
“People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.”
“I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.”
“Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.”
“I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.”
“What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.”
“I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.”
“If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.”
“Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.”