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Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

I didn't even complete my University Education

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.