Businessman Quotes

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.
There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
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.
There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.
There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
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