If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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

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

In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

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

Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.