in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."