Bill Gates

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. ”

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. ”

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. ”

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. ”

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ”

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. ”

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ”

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. ”

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things. ”

The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions. ”