Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

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.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.