Bill Gates

“It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.”

“When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.”

“Newspaper readership is still growing in India.”

“India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.”

“If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.”

“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.”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.”

“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”

“The best teacher is very interactive.”

“My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.”

“DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.”

“The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.”

“Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.”

“It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'”

“Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.”

“I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.”

“Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.”

“Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.”

“Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.”