The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.