By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world..

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I th….

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs..

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at leas….

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means ….

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another..

Two years from now, spam will be solved..

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream..

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things..

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know..

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages..

One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, ….

I don't think culture is something you can describe..

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf..

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its ….

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod..

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted..

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out..

Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you wan….

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing..

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five co….