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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house ... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice ...

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

Today, the issue isn't quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

I didn't even complete my University Education

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

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.

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Long-term vision and product strategy.

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

You can be a business thinker.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

Convert bad news to good news.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I didn't say this.

There's life and death in every email.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

It's useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

Software is more important than hardware.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.