Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

Africa is on the rise.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.