In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.