If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.

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.