There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.