I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the one who matters.

Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

The truly passionate people do it out of love, caring and truth.

While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

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

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

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

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I am results-oriented.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

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

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

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

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best