How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn’t always where you want to use it, and it isn’t always when you want to use it.
Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.
I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.
I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
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