When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."