Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
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.
I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.
Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.
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.
Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‘The Most Powerful Idea in the World.’
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.