The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.