If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.