Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
Common Core is a big win for education.
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.
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.
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
I don't think culture is something you can describe.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.