Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

Windows 95 was a nice milestone.

Everything on the internet is real god damn it!

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.