We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. 

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. 

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

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.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

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

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the beginning.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

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 least a moral belief.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

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

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.