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.
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
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.
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
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.
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.
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
I think there will be PCs at every price point.
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.
There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
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?
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.
Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
I am results-oriented.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.