Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.