If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being….

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be becau….

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles..

In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or ….

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event..

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. ….

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 t….

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up imme….

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read th….

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but do….

The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when ….

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity..

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]..

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thi….

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a pri….

I believe in generous aid policies..

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

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated….

There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element….

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product..

Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just sim….