We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
It is hard to smash a computer when you’re laughing.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.
As I look forward, I’m very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
It’s really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
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 Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
Life is not a continuous process, there’s some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.