There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

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.

Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

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

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

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