Bill Gates

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

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

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I'm a geek.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.'

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

People everywhere love Windows.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?