Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly..

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive..

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..

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in th….

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low..

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about..

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less..

If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they cal….

The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you ca….

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information..

It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. ….

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve..

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version..

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids..

Leaders are those who empower others..

I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can..

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to….

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition..

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's na….

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the lat….

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era..