By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.
If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.
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.
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.
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
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.
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.
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.