Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.